Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 2
The little black eyes grow bright as diamonds as they listen, and no bedtime story of Mother Goose of Western lands is more treasured.
Who acts: little black eyes, eyes · What happens: grow, listen, treasure · To what, where: bedtime story
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 (little black eyes, eyes), 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 | 4 eyes | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grow | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 diamonds | case |
| 8 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 listen | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 listen | nsubj |
| 11 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 treasured | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 treasured | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 story | det |
| 15 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 story | compound |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 treasured | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Mother | case |
| 18 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 story | nmod |
| 19 | Goose | Goose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mother | flat |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lands | case |
| 21 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lands | amod |
| 22 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 story | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 treasured | aux:pass |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 treasured | advmod |
| 25 | treasured | treasure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 grow | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the little black eyes | as diamonds; bright property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | present | eyes = eye | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | treasure | present · passive | no bedtime story of Mother of Western lands | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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