Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 24

Now, I can go into people’s houses, hide in the rafters under their windows, see their books and pictures, what they have to eat and what they do.

Who acts: I, books · What happens: go, hide, see, have, eat, do · To what, where: houses, rafters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, books), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 houses	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 houses	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 people	case
9	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hide	punct
11	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 rafters	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rafters	det
14	rafters	rafter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hide	obl
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 windows	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 windows	nmod:poss
17	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rafters	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 books	nmod:poss
21	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pictures	cc
23	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 books	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 have	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 see	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 have	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 what	cc
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 eat	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
33	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 what	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	can	I	people's houses	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
2	hide	present		the rafters under rafters's windows			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rafter=Location
3	see	infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	present	windows's books and pictures			what obj	tree rules
5	eat	to-infinitive	windows's books and pictures not said here			what obj	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
6	do	present	books = book				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 24