Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 72
How the dog did scold and howl then; he was so hungry, and such visions of a good supper had filled his eyes all the way over.
Who acts: dog, son · What happens: scold, howl, be, fill · To what, where: such visions
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 (dog, son), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 scold | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scold | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scold | aux |
| 5 | scold | scold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 howl | cc |
| 7 | howl | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scold | conj |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 howl | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hungry | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hungry | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hungry | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 hungry | advmod |
| 13 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scold | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 filled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 filled | cc |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 visions | amod |
| 17 | visions | vision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 supper | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 supper | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 supper | amod |
| 21 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 visions | nmod |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 filled | aux |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hungry | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 filled | obj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 way | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 over | obl |
| 29 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 filled | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past · do-support | the dog | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | howl | infinitive | the dog not said here | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | son | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fill | past · perfect · passive | such visions of a good supper | son's eyes obj; over property | tree rules |
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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