---
title: Miss Russell soon had a class of one hundred and fifty or more boys. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Miss Russell soon had a class of one hundred and fifty or more boys. Who acts: Miss. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/44/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Gleanings from Chinese folklore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/) / [Nellie N. Russell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/) / 44

# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 44

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Miss Russell soon had a class of one hundred and fifty or more boys.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** class

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Miss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:3:44
# text = Miss Russell soon had a class of one hundred and fifty or more boys.
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Miss | a class of hundred more boys |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/43/)
- next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/45/)
- ↑ back to [Nellie N. Russell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/)