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title: Her love for little children—the new-born babe, the toddling child,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Her love for little children—the new-born babe, the toddling child, the merry boy or girl, was peculiarly reverent and beautiful. Who acts: love, Miss. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 73

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Her love for little children—the new-born babe, the toddling child, the merry boy or girl, was peculiarly reverent and beautiful.

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**Who acts:** love, Miss · **What happens:** bear, toddle, be, love

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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 (love, Miss), 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:pg75089:4:73
# text = Her love for little children—the new-born babe, the toddling child, the merry boy or girl, was peculiarly reverent and beautiful.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	toddling	toddle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	reverent	reverent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **toddle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Miss's love for little children and the born babe and the toddling child and the merry boy or girl |  |  |  |  | peculiarly, reverent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Miss's love for little children and the born babe and the toddling child and the merry boy or girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **love** |  | Miss |  |  |  |  | for little children | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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