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title: Now, I can go into people’s houses, hide in the rafters under their… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, I can go into people’s houses, hide in the rafters under their windows, see their books and pictures, what they have to eat and what they do. Who acts: I, books. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, with its dependency tree and
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 24

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Now, I can go into people’s houses, hide in the rafters under their windows, see their books and pictures, what they have to eat and what they do.

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**Who acts:** I, books · **What happens:** go, hide, see, have, eat, do · **To what, where:** houses, rafters · **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 (I, books), 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:pg75089:8:24
# text = Now, I can go into people’s houses, hide in the rafters under their windows, see their books and pictures, what they have to eat and what they do.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rafters	rafter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | can | I |  |  | people's houses | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hide** | present |  |  |  | the rafters under rafters's windows |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rafter=Location |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | present | windows's books and pictures |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | windows's books and pictures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 6 | **do** | present | books *= book* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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