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title: The little black eyes grow bright as diamonds as they listen, and no… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The little black eyes grow bright as diamonds as they listen, and no bedtime story of Mother Goose of Western lands is more treasured. Who acts: little black eyes, eyes. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, with its dependen
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 2

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The little black eyes grow bright as diamonds as they listen, and no bedtime story of Mother Goose of Western lands is more treasured.

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**Who acts:** little black eyes, eyes · **What happens:** grow, listen, treasure · **To what, where:** bedtime story

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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 (little black eyes, eyes), 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:pg75089:14:2
# text = The little black eyes grow bright as diamonds as they listen, and no bedtime story of Mother Goose of Western lands is more treasured.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Goose	Goose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	treasured	treasure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | the little black eyes |  |  |  |  | as diamonds; bright *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **listen** | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **treasure** | present · passive |  | no bedtime story of Mother of Western lands |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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:** «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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