Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 59

After a time she spied a rathole, and going over to it she waited patiently till a big mouse came out; then she sprang upon it and held it fast.

Who acts: cat, big mouse · What happens: spy, go over, wait, come out, spring, hold · To what, where: rathole, mouse

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, big mouse), 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	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spied	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spied	nsubj
5	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rathole	det
7	rathole	rathole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waited	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 waited	cc
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 waited	advcl
11	over	over	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 waited	nsubj
15	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spied	conj
16	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	15 waited	advmod
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mouse	det
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mouse	amod
20	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 waited	advcl
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sprang	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sprang	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sprang	nsubj
26	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spied	parataxis
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sprang	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 held	cc
30	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sprang	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 held	obj
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 held	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	spy	past	cat	a rathole		time		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rathole=Stimulus
2	go over	gerund	cat not said here		rathole		over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	wait	past	cat				patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come out	past	a big mouse				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	spring	past	cat			then	upon mouse	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory
6	hold	past	cat not said here	mouse			fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 59

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 59