The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 109

The cat went on alone, and when the master saw her coming he called out to know why she had returned so soon and what had become of her companion.

Who acts: cat, master · What happens: go on, see, come, call out, know, return · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 master	det
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 saw	xcomp
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 coming	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 called	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	18 know	mark
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 coming	advcl
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 returned	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 returned	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 returned	aux
22	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 know	ccomp
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 soon	advmod
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 returned	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 become	cc
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 become	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
28	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 returned	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 companion	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 companion	nmod:poss
31	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 become	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the cat		alone property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	the master	cat		tree rules
3	come	gerund	cat not said here			tree rules
4	call out speech: assert	participle	master			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	to-infinitive	cat not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	return	past · perfect	cat		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	become	past · perfect			of cat's companion; what nsubj	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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.

Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 109