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title: She must surely be some great overgrown ugly creature. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She must surely be some great overgrown ugly creature. Who acts: Ting. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 18

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She must surely be some great overgrown ugly creature.

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**Who acts:** Ting · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** great overgrown ugly creature

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ting), 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:pg75089:6:18
# text = She must surely be some great overgrown ugly creature.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	overgrown	overgrown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | Ting | great overgrown ugly creature |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |

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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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