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title: They were filled with envy, and later on, one day when the old lady… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 40

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They were filled with envy, and later on, one day when the old lady was away from home, one of them went into her room and stole the precious charm.

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**Who acts:** old lady, one day · **What happens:** fill, be, go, steal · **To what, where:** relatives, home, room, precious charm

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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 (old lady, one day), 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:pg75089:14:40
# text = They were filled with envy, and later on, one day when the old lady was away from home, one of them went into her room and stole the precious charm.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | relatives *= relative* |  |  |  | with envy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | past | the old lady |  |  | home |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | one day |  |  | lady's room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **steal** | past | one day *not said here* | the precious charm |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location charm=Theme |

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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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