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title: She learned from the Christian women many Chinese household arts and… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She learned from the Christian women many Chinese household arts and liked to show her missionary associates of less dexterity that she could feed a fire under a native kettle with as little waste of fuel and as large result in the boiling of porridge as those to the manner born. Who acts: Russell. 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 96

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She learned from the Christian women many Chinese household arts and liked to show her missionary associates of less dexterity that she could feed a fire under a native kettle with as little waste of fuel and as large result in the boiling of porridge as those to the manner born.

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**Who acts:** Russell · **What happens:** learn, like, show, feed, bear · **To what, where:** many Chinese household arts, missionary associates, fire, native kettle, manner

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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), 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:pg75089:3:96
# text = She learned from the Christian women many Chinese household arts and liked to show her missionary associates of less dexterity that she could feed a fire under a native kettle with as little waste of fuel and as large result in the boiling of porridge as those to the manner born.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	associates	associate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	dexterity	dexterity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Russell | many Chinese household arts |  |  |  | from the Christian women | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent art=Topic from woman=Source |
| 2 | **like** | participle | Russell *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **show** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Russell *not said here* | Russell's missionary associates of less dexterity |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent associate=Recipient |
| 4 | **feed** | could | Russell | a fire |  | a native kettle |  | with little waste of fuel and large result in the boiling of porridge; as those to the manner | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient |
| 5 | **bear** | participle |  | the manner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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