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title: Hither little Ting Lang bent his steps, and as he was running along… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Hither little Ting Lang bent his steps, and as he was running along he pushed against a small boy who fell down, and at once began in great anger to revile Ting Lang’s father. Who acts: little Ting, Ting, small boy. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 13

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Hither little Ting Lang bent his steps, and as he was running along he pushed against a small boy who fell down, and at once began in great anger to revile Ting Lang’s father.

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**Who acts:** little Ting, Ting, small boy · **What happens:** bend, run along, push, fall down, begin, revile · **To what, where:** steps, great anger, father

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Ting, Ting, small boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:18:13
# text = Hither little Ting Lang bent his steps, and as he was running along he pushed against a small boy who fell down, and at once began in great anger to revile Ting Lang’s father.
1	Hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Ting	Ting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	obl	_	_
28	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	revile	revile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
34	Ting	Ting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
35	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
37	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | past | little Ting | Ting's steps |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent step=Material |
| 2 | **run along** | past · progressive | Ting |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **push** | past | Ting |  |  |  |  | against a small boy | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against boy=Theme |
| 4 | **fall down** | past | a small boy |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past | little Ting *not said here* |  |  | great anger |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **revile** | to-infinitive | little Ting *not said here* | Ting's father |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme |
| 7 | **step** |  | Ting |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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