Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 76
Then after thanking the frog, the cat and dog started home; so happy were they they could not get over the ground fast enough.
Who acts: cat, dog · What happens: thank, start, not be · To what, where: frog, ground · 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 (cat, dog), 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 | 3 thanking | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 thanking | mark |
| 3 | thanking | thank | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 frog | det |
| 5 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanking | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cat | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dog | cc |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cat | conj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frog | acl:relcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 started | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 happy | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 happy | advmod |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanking | parataxis |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | cop |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 get | advmod |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 happy | ccomp |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obl |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 get | advmod |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 get | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | gerund | the frog | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | the cat and dog | the frog not said here | home property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | not is | could · past | dog | the ground | enough, fast, get 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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