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title: She who gave herself so lavishly, who had by her wonderful tact and… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She who gave herself so lavishly, who had by her wonderful tact and charm won from each their best, had nothing to tell of how she had come to learn so much of these strangers. Who acts: Russell, charm. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 81

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She who gave herself so lavishly, who had by her wonderful tact and charm won from each their best, had nothing to tell of how she had come to learn so much of these strangers.

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**Who acts:** Russell, charm · **What happens:** give, have, win, tell, come, learn · **To what, where:** Russell, each, nothing, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Russell, charm), 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:pg75089:3:81
# text = She who gave herself so lavishly, who had by her wonderful tact and charm won from each their best, had nothing to tell of how she had come to learn so much of these strangers.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	iobj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	lavishly	lavishly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tact	tact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Russell |  | Russell |  |  | who *nsubj*; lavishly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by Russell's wonderful tact; who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **win** | past | charm |  |  | each  interviews's best |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from each=Source |
| 4 | **have** | past | Russell *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Russell *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | past · perfect | Russell |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **learn** | to-infinitive | Russell *not said here* | much of this strangers |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic |

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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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