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title: So was her love of beauty, and one can never think of her without so… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 101

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So was her love of beauty, and one can never think of her without some flower or picture to attract the eye and give a touch of brightness to the room in which she sat. On these country trips she wore the native dress and her dark eyes and hair made her seem more at home in it than many Western women.

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**Who acts:** one, sat., Russell, dark eyes · **What happens:** be, not think, attract, give, trip, wear · **To what, where:** love, eye, touch, room, native dress, Russell

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, sat., Russell, dark eyes), 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:pg75089:3:101
# text = So was her love of beauty, and one can never think of her without some flower or picture to attract the eye and give a touch of brightness to the room in which she sat. On these country trips she wore the native dress and her dark eyes and hair made her seem more at home in it than many Western women.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	On	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	trips	trip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	ccomp	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
52	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	54	obj	_	_
56	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nmod	_	_
60	than	than	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
62	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Russell's love |  |  |  | of beauty; Russell *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | can | one |  |  |  |  | of Russell's flower or picture | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **attract** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | the eye |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive | one *not said here* | a touch of brightness | the room |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent touch=Theme to room=Recipient |
| 5 | **trip** | present | sat.  Russell on this country |  |  | the room |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wear** | past | Russell | the native dress |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | past | Russell's dark eyes and hair | Russell |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **seem** | infinitive | Russell *not said here* | more at home in eye than many Western women |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Attribute |
| 9 | **touch** |  |  | brightness |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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