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title: Chin Ting came gradually to be looked upon as their leader, her wise… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Chin Ting came gradually to be looked upon as their leader, her wise little head was full of plans, and her eyes would flash fire as she gave her orders to the youths who followed her. Who acts: Chin Ting, wise little head, eyes, Ting. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 5

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Chin Ting came gradually to be looked upon as their leader, her wise little head was full of plans, and her eyes would flash fire as she gave her orders to the youths who followed her.

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**Who acts:** Chin Ting, wise little head, eyes, Ting, youths · **What happens:** come, look, be, flash, give, follow · **To what, where:** fire, orders, youths, Ting

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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 (Chin Ting, wise little head, eyes, 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:pg75089:6:5
# text = Chin Ting came gradually to be looked upon as their leader, her wise little head was full of plans, and her eyes would flash fire as she gave her orders to the youths who followed her.
1	Chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	flash	flash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Chin Ting |  |  |  |  | gradually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive · passive | Chin Ting *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon children's leader | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: upon leader=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Ting's wise little head |  |  |  |  | of plans; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **flash** | would | Ting's eyes | fire |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past | Ting | Ting's orders | the youths |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to youth=Recipient |
| 6 | **follow** | past | the youths | Ting |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 7 | **order** |  | Ting |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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