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title: Then after thanking the frog, the cat and dog started home; so happy… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Then after thanking the frog, the cat and dog started home; so happy were they they could not get over the ground fast enough. Who acts: cat, dog. 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 pragmat
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 76

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Then after thanking the frog, the cat and dog started home; so happy were they they could not get over the ground fast enough.

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**Who acts:** cat, dog · **What happens:** thank, start, not be · **To what, where:** frog, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cat, dog), 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:pg75089:14:76
# text = Then after thanking the frog, the cat and dog started home; so happy were they they could not get over the ground fast enough.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund |  |  | the frog |  | then |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | past | the cat and dog | the frog *not said here* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **is** | could · past | dog |  |  | the ground |  | enough, fast, get *property* | 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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