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title: The cat went on alone, and when the master saw her coming he called… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The cat went on alone, and when the master saw her coming he called out to know why she had returned so soon and what had become of her companion. Who acts: cat, master. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 109

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The cat went on alone, and when the master saw her coming he called out to know why she had returned so soon and what had become of her companion.

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**Who acts:** cat, master · **What happens:** go on, see, come, call out, know, return · **To what, where:** cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:18:111
# text = The cat went on alone, and when the master saw her coming he called out to know why she had returned so soon and what had become of her companion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | the cat |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the master | cat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** | to-infinitive | cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **return** | past · perfect | cat |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **become** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of cat's companion; what *nsubj* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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