--- title: Now, Sun Hou saw the look and so changed himself into a bird, flew u… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: Now, Sun Hou saw the look and so changed himself into a bird, flew up over the monk, and seeing the worm, flew down and in picking it up saw that it was the “Minister Sheep,” to whom he said, “If this is the trick I will show you what I can do,” and changed himself into a centipede, and crawled upon --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Gleanings from Chinese folklore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/) / [T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/) / 79 # Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 79 Now, Sun Hou saw the look and so changed himself into a bird, flew up over the monk, and seeing the worm, flew down and in picking it up saw that it was the “Minister Sheep,” to whom he said, “If this is the trick I will show you what I can do,” and changed himself into a centipede, and crawled upon Minister Fox. **Who acts:** Sun, seeing, worm, this, trick · **What happens:** see, change, fly up, fly down, pick up, be · **To what, where:** look, Sun, worm, Minister Sheep, trick, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, seeing, worm, this), 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:pg75089:16:79 # text = Now, Sun Hou saw the look and so changed himself into a bird, flew up over the monk, and seeing the worm, flew down and in picking it up saw that it was the “Minister Sheep,” to whom he said, “If this is the trick I will show you what I can do,” and changed himself into a centipede, and crawled upon Minister Fox. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Hou Hou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 monk monk NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 csubj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 27 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 down down ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 in in SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 “ " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 Minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 47 obj _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 49 “ " PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 If if SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 51 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 nsubj _ _ 52 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 55 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 56 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 ccomp _ _ 58 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 57 iobj _ _ 59 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 62 obj _ _ 60 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 61 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 62 aux _ _ 62 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ” " PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 66 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 67 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 66 obj _ _ 68 into into ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 centipede centipede NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 71 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 72 and and CCONJ CC _ 73 cc _ _ 73 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 74 upon upon ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 75 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 76 compound _ _ 76 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Sun | the look | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus | | 2 | **change** | past | Sun *not said here* | Sun | | | | into a bird *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into bird=Result | | 3 | **fly up** | past | Sun *not said here* | | | | | over the monk | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over monk=Location | | 4 | **see** | gerund | | the worm | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer worm=Stimulus | | 5 | **fly down** | past | seeing | | | | | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pick up** | gerund | | worm | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 7 | **see** | past | seeing *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | worm | the Minister Sheep | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sun | the Minister Sheep | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this | the trick | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **show** *in a quote* | future | the trick | | you | | | I *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 12 | **do** *in a quote* | can | Sun | | | | | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 13 | **change** | past | Sun *not said here* | trick | | | | into a centipede *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into centipede=Result | | 14 | **crawl** | past | Sun *not said here* | | | | | upon Minister Fox | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fox=Trajectory | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/80/) - ↑ back to [T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/)