The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 104
It is like the ‘rat-a-tat’ the little hare heard.”
Who acts: occasion, little hare · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: rat tat
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (occasion, little hare), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tat | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tat | cop |
| 3 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 tat | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tat | det |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 tat | punct |
| 6 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tat | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tat | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tat | det |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 a | punct |
| 10 | tat | tat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 tat | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hare | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hare | amod |
| 14 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tat | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tat | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | occasion | the rat tat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | participle | the little hare | the rat tat not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tat=Stimulus |
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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