Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 15

The old lady looked at the gold ornament in her hand, thought of what had been said to her, and wondered if she was asleep and it was all a dream.

Who acts: old lady, lady, hand · What happens: look, think, say, wonder, be · To what, where: hand, lady, dream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old lady, lady, hand), 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	3 lady	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 ornament	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ornament	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ornament	compound
8	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ornament	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
13	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 hand	acl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 said	obj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	aux:pass
18	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thought	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wondered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wondered	cc
23	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	parataxis
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 asleep	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asleep	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 asleep	cop
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wondered	ccomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dream	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dream	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dream	cop
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 dream	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dream	det
33	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wondered	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the old lady			at the gold ornament in lady's hand	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ornament=Theme
2	think speech: other	participle		lady's hand not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive			lady	what obj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: what=Topic to she=Recipient
4	wonder speech: ask	past					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	lady			asleep property	tree rules
6	is a	past	hand	all dream			tree rules

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: «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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 15