--- title: She set their striking characteristics before us in racy, sympatheti… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: She set their striking characteristics before us in racy, sympathetic stories to which we, in the Ladies’ Home, listened with delight, and went from the recital to our routine duties with a sense of having been introduced to a fresh circle of attractive friends from day to day. Who acts: Russell. A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/79/) [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/) / 79 # Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 79 She set their striking characteristics before us in racy, sympathetic stories to which we, in the Ladies’ Home, listened with delight, and went from the recital to our routine duties with a sense of having been introduced to a fresh circle of attractive friends from day to day. **Who acts:** Russell · **What happens:** set, listen, go, introduce · **To what, where:** striking characteristics, racy sympathetic stories, Home, recital, sense 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 (Russell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:3:79 # text = She set their striking characteristics before us in racy, sympathetic stories to which we, in the Ladies’ Home, listened with delight, and went from the recital to our routine duties with a sense of having been introduced to a fresh circle of attractive friends from day to day. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 striking striking NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 characteristics characteristic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 racy racy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 sympathetic sympathetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obl _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Ladies Lady PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 Home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 listened listen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 recital recital NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 routine routine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 duties duty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 of of SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 aux _ _ 41 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 introduced introduce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 attractive attractive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ _ 50 from from ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 52 to to ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | Russell | interviews's striking characteristics | | racy sympathetic stories in the Ladies's Home to racy sympathetic stories in the Ladies's Home to racy sympathetic stories we we | before us | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent characteristic=Theme before we=Destination | | 2 | **listen** | participle | | the Ladies's Home to racy sympathetic stories in the Ladies's Home to racy sympathetic stories in Home we we *not said here* | | | | with delight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | Russell *not said here* | | | the recital | | to our routine duties with a sense | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from recital=Initial\_Location to duty=Destination | | 4 | **introduce** | gerund · perfect · passive | | a sense *not said here* | | | day | to a fresh circle of attractive friends from day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to circle=Co-Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/80/) - ↑ back to [Nellie N. 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