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title: With trembling hands and quivering lips, but shining eyes, she knelt… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: With trembling hands and quivering lips, but shining eyes, she knelt before her Emperor. Who acts: Glory. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 26

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With trembling hands and quivering lips, but shining eyes, she knelt before her Emperor.

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**Who acts:** Glory · **What happens:** tremble, quiver, shine, kneel · **To what, where:** hands, lips, eyes

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Glory), 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:pg75089:7:26
# text = With trembling hands and quivering lips, but shining eyes, she knelt before her Emperor.
1	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	quivering	quiver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
6	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | gerund | Glory *not said here* | hands |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 2 | **quiver** | gerund | Glory *not said here* | lips |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lip=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | Glory *not said here* | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 4 | **kneel** | past | Glory |  |  |  | before Glory's Emperor |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before emperor=Location |

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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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