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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 40

They were filled with envy, and later on, one day when the old lady was away from home, one of them went into her room and stole the precious charm.

Who acts: old lady, one day · What happens: fill, be, go, steal · To what, where: relatives, home, room, precious charm

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, one day), 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

nsubjaux:passcaseoblpunctccadvmodadvmodpunctnummodnsubjmarkdetamodnsubjcopadvmodcaseoblpunctapposcasenmodparataxiscasenmod:possoblccconjdetamodobjpunctrootTheyPRONwereAUXfilledVERBwithADPenvyNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJlaterADVonADV,PUNCToneNUMdayNOUNwhenSCONJtheDEToldADJladyNOUNwasAUXawayADVfromADPhomeNOUN,PUNCToneNUMofADPthemPRONwentVERBintoADPherPRONroomNOUNandCCONJstoleVERBtheDETpreciousADJcharmNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 fillednsubj
2werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 filledaux:pass
3filledfillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
4withwithADP_5 envycase
5envyenvyNOUNNumber=Sing3 filledobl
6,,PUNCT_12 daypunct
7andandCCONJ_12 daycc
8laterlateADVDegree=Cmp9 onadvmod
9ononADV_12 dayadvmod
10,,PUNCT_12 daypunct
11oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card12 daynummod
12daydayNOUNNumber=Sing25 wentnsubj
13whenwhenSCONJ_18 awaymark
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 ladydet
15oldoldADJDegree=Pos16 ladyamod
16ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing18 awaynsubj
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 awaycop
18awayawayADV_12 dayadvmod
19fromfromADP_20 homecase
20homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing18 awayobl
21,,PUNCT_22 onepunct
22oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card12 dayappos
23ofofADP_24 themcase
24themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 onenmod
25wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 filledparataxis
26intointoADP_28 roomcase
27herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 roomnmod:poss
28roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing25 wentobl
29andandCCONJ_30 stolecc
30stolestealVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 wentconj
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 charmdet
32preciouspreciousADJDegree=Pos33 charmamod
33charmcharmNOUNNumber=Sing30 stoleobj
34..PUNCT_3 filledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fillpast · passiverelatives = relativewith envyvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument
2ispastthe old ladyhomeaway propertytree rules
3gopastone daylady's roomvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
4stealpastone day not said herethe precious charmvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location charm=Theme

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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