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title: To this the goose did not reply and the sparrow became angry and ask… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: To this the goose did not reply and the sparrow became angry and asked again, “Who are you, that you should be so proud and lofty you cannot pay attention to my questions? Who acts: sparrow, goose, my. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sp
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 11

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To this the goose did not reply and the sparrow became angry and asked again, “Who are you, that you should be so proud and lofty you cannot pay attention to my questions?

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**Who acts:** sparrow, goose, my · **What happens:** not reply, become, ask, be, not pay, question · **To what, where:** goose, attention · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow, goose, my), 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:pg75089:8:11
# text = To this the goose did not reply and the sparrow became angry and asked again, “Who are you, that you should be so proud and lofty you cannot pay attention to my questions?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	reply	reply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	parataxis	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	csubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
34	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reply** *speech: ask* | past · do-support |  |  | this goose |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to goose=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **become** | past | the sparrow |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the sparrow *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this goose *= goose* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | should | this goose *= goose* |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* |  | this goose *= goose* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **pay** *in a quote* | can | this goose *= goose* | attention |  |  |  | to my questions | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 8 | **question** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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