Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 58
Over the roofs and along fences the cat went till she came to the right house; then she found a window open, and walking in she curled down in a warm place to take note of what was going on and to make her plans.
Who acts: cat, walking · What happens: go, come, find, walk, curl down, take · To what, where: roofs, right house, window, warm place, note, plans
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 (cat, walking), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 3 roofs | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roofs | det |
| 3 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fences | cc |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 fences | case |
| 6 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roofs | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 found | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 window | det |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 found | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 curled | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 curled | cc |
| 26 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 curled | csubj:pass |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 she | case |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 walking | obl |
| 29 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 found | advcl |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 curled | compound:prt |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 place | det |
| 33 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 place | amod |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 curled | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 take | mark |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 curled | advcl |
| 37 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 take | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 what | case |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 note | nmod |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 going | aux |
| 41 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 what | acl:relcl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 going | compound:prt |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 make | cc |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 make | mark |
| 45 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 take | conj |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 plans | nmod:poss |
| 47 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 make | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the cat | the roofs and fences | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over roof=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | cat | the right house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | cat | a window | then | open property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Topic | ||
| 4 | walk | gerund | in cat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in she=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | curl down | participle | walking | a warm place | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | walking not said here | note | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go on | past · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | make | to-infinitive | walking not said here | cat's plans | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product | ||||
| 9 | plan | cat | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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