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title: In the autumn of the year 1879, Nellie, although so young, taught a… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In the autumn of the year 1879, Nellie, although so young, taught a country school, boarding around from house to house, as was the custom at that time. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 14

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In the autumn of the year 1879, Nellie, although so young, taught a country school, boarding around from house to house, as was the custom at that time.

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**What happens:** teach, board around, be · **To what, where:** country school, house

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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: 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:pg75089:3:14
# text = In the autumn of the year 1879, Nellie, although so young, taught a country school, boarding around from house to house, as was the custom at that time.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	1879	1879	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Nellie	Nellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	boarding	board	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	around	around	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past |  | a country school |  |  | autumn |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Recipient |
| 2 | **board around** | gerund |  |  |  | house to house |  | around *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | time | as the custom | tree rules |

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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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