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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 27

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Hearing this, the boy rushed from the room and out into the back court where there was a well and, as he ran by, he kicked a brick into the well and dashed into a grape arbour.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** hear, rush, be, run by, kick, dash · **To what, where:** this, room, brick, well, grape arbour

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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 (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:pg75089:18:27
# text = Hearing this, the boy rushed from the room and out into the back court where there was a well and, as he ran by, he kicked a brick into the well and dashed into a grape arbour.
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	arbour	arbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the boy *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rush** | past | the boy |  |  | the room into the back court |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from room=Trajectory |
| 3 | **be** | past | the boy *not said here* |  |  | there |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run by** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **kick** | past | boy | a brick |  |  |  | into the well *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent brick=Patient into well=Result |
| 6 | **dash** | participle | boy *not said here* |  |  | a grape arbour |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into arbour=Destination |

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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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