Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 34

After this, day by day, the mother and son and the household cat and dog had plenty to eat and all was happiness in the little family.

Who acts: mother · What happens: have, eat, be · To what, where: plenty, happiness, little family

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 (mother), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 day	det
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 day	case
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 son	cc
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cat	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
14	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cat	compound
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dog	cc
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	conj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 plenty	acl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 happiness	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 happiness	det
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 happiness	cop
25	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 family	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 family	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 family	amod
29	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 happiness	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	the mother and son and the household cat and dog	plenty		day	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	the mother and son and the household cat and dog not said here	plenty not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the mother and son and the household cat and dog not said here	all happiness	the little family		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 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 34