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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 67

After a time they came back with it and the poor mouse was allowed to go, while the cat made her way back to the riverside with the ornament in her mouth.

Who acts: companions, poor mouse, cat · What happens: come back, allow, go, make back · To what, where: poor mouse, mistress

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 (companions, poor mouse, cat), 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

casedetoblnsubjadvmodcaseoblccdetamodnsubj:passaux:passconjmarkxcomppunctmarkdetnsubjconjobjobl:unmarkedadvmodcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootAfterADPaDETtimeNOUNtheyPRONcameVERBbackADVwithADPitPRONandCCONJtheDETpoorADJmouseNOUNwasAUXallowedVERBtoPARTgoVERB,PUNCTwhileSCONJtheDETcatNOUNmadeVERBherPRONwayNOUNbackADVtoADPtheDETriversideNOUNwithADPtheDETornamentNOUNinADPherPRONmouthNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_3 timecase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 timedet
3timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing5 cameobl
4theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 camensubj
5camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6backbackADV_5 cameadvmod
7withwithADP_8 itcase
8ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 cameobl
9andandCCONJ_14 allowedcc
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 mousedet
11poorpoorADJDegree=Pos12 mouseamod
12mousemouseNOUNNumber=Sing14 allowednsubj:pass
13wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 allowedaux:pass
14allowedallowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 cameconj
15totoPART_16 gomark
16gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf14 allowedxcomp
17,,PUNCT_21 madepunct
18whilewhileSCONJ_21 mademark
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 catdet
20catcatNOUNNumber=Sing21 madensubj
21mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 cameconj
22hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 madeobj
23waywayNOUNNumber=Sing21 madeobl:unmarked
24backbackADV_21 madeadvmod
25totoADP_27 riversidecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 riversidedet
27riversideriversideNOUNNumber=Sing21 madeobl
28withwithADP_30 ornamentcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 ornamentdet
30ornamentornamentNOUNNumber=Sing27 riversidenmod
31ininADP_33 mouthcase
32herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 mouthnmod:poss
33mouthmouthNOUNNumber=Sing30 ornamentnmod
34..PUNCT_5 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1come backpastcompanions = companiontimewith searchvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2allowpast · passivethe poor mousevn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3go not said to happento-infinitivethe poor mouse not said herevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4make backpastthe catmistressto the riverside with the ornament in cat's mouth; way obl:unmarkedvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product

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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