---
title: On returning to Peking for work in the city, she again wore the Euro… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: On returning to Peking for work in the city, she again wore the European dress. Who acts: simplicity. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, 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/pg75089/4/20/)

<!-- 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/) / [Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/) / 20

# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 20

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
On returning to Peking for work in the city, she again wore the European dress.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** simplicity · **What happens:** return, wear · **To what, where:** Peking, European dress

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (simplicity), 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:pg75089:4:20
# text = On returning to Peking for work in the city, she again wore the European dress.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | simplicity *not said here* |  | Peking |  |  | for work in the city | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to peking=Result |
| 2 | **wear** | past | simplicity | the European dress |  |  | again |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |

<!-- .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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/19/)
- next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/21/)
- ↑ back to [Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/)