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title: After this, day by day, the mother and son and the household cat and… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: After this, day by day, the mother and son and the household cat and dog had plenty to eat and all was happiness in the little family. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 34

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After this, day by day, the mother and son and the household cat and dog had plenty to eat and all was happiness in the little family.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** have, eat, be · **To what, where:** plenty, happiness, little family

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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 (mother), 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:pg75089:14:34
# text = After this, day by day, the mother and son and the household cat and dog had plenty to eat and all was happiness in the little family.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the mother and son and the household cat and dog | plenty |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the mother and son and the household cat and dog *not said here* | plenty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the mother and son and the household cat and dog *not said here* | all happiness |  | the little family |  |  | tree rules |

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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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