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title: In order that she might get the education requisite for it she toile… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In order that she might get the education requisite for it she toiled and saved until she was able to enter Northfield Seminary, which had just been founded by Mr. D. L. Moody. Who acts: sum, education requisite, D.. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 19

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In order that she might get the education requisite for it she toiled and saved until she was able to enter Northfield Seminary, which had just been founded by Mr. D. L. Moody.

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**Who acts:** sum, education requisite, D. · **What happens:** get, toil, save, be, enter, found · **To what, where:** order, Northfield

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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 (sum, education requisite, D.), 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:pg75089:3:19
# text = In order that she might get the education requisite for it she toiled and saved until she was able to enter Northfield Seminary, which had just been founded by Mr. D. L. Moody.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	requisite	requisite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	toiled	toil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	Northfield	Northfield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	Seminary	Seminary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
32	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl:agent	_	_
33	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	Moody	Moody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | might | sum |  |  | order |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **toil** | past | the education requisite for order |  |  |  |  | sum *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | past | the education requisite for order *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | sum |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **enter** | to-infinitive | sum *not said here* |  | Northfield |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme northfield=Destination |
| 6 | **found** | past · perfect · passive | D.  Mr. | Northfield |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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