Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 66

Then the mouse called out and all the mice came running, and when told what to do, away they went in search of the gold ornament.

Who acts: mice, companions · What happens: call out, come, run, tell, do, go · To what, where: mouse, search, gold ornament · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mice, companions), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 called	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj:pass
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 called	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 mice	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mice	det
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	advcl
11	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 came	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 told	advmod
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 called	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 do	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	away	away	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 search	case
24	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 ornament	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ornament	det
27	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ornament	compound
28	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 search	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		the mouse		then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	come	past	all mice					tree rules
3	run	gerund	all mice not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	participle						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive					what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	go	past	companions = companion		search of the gold ornament		away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
7	search			the gold ornament				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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 66

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 66