--- title: After a little the cat went out into the yard, and seeing the poor,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: After a little the cat went out into the yard, and seeing the poor, hungry dog, she told him with great pride of all the good things she had had to eat, and the nice things the family had promised her. Who acts: cat, good things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, good things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:14:80 # text = After a little the cat went out into the yard, and seeing the poor, hungry dog, she told him with great pride of all the good things she had had to eat, and the nice things the family had promised her. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 7 out out ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 ccomp _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | the cat | a little | | | | into the yard; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | gerund | the cat *not said here* | the poor hungry dog | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | cat | | frog | | | with great pride of all good things | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** | past · perfect | cat | all good things *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | all good things *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect · passive | | the nice things | cat | | | the family *nsubj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal she=Theme | | 7 | **pride** | | | all good things | | | | | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/14/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/14/81/) - ↑ back to [How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/14/)