The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 5
The King rode on a huge Elephant adorned with the most gorgeous trappings.
What happens: adorn · To what, where: huge Elephant
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rat and the Elephant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rode | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | compound |
| 3 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Elephant | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Elephant | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Elephant | amod |
| 7 | Elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nmod |
| 8 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Elephant | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 trappings | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trappings | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 gorgeous | advmod |
| 12 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trappings | amod |
| 13 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 adorned | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adorn | participle | a huge Elephant not said here | with the gorgeous trappings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with trapping=Theme |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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