The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 208
Nothing more terrible than this can be imagined.
What happens: imagine · To what, where: Nothing
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 terrible | advmod |
| 3 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | amod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 terrible | obl |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 imagined | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 imagined | aux:pass |
| 8 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can · passive | Nothing | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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 grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (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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