The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 135
Terrified with fear of the lion, they turned around and stood all huddled together.
Who acts: earth · What happens: turn around, stand, huddle, fear · To what, where: lion
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 (earth), 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 | Terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 fear | case |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Terrified | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lion | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fear | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Terrified | conj |
| 10 | around | around | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | conj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 huddled | advmod |
| 14 | huddled | huddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stood | xcomp |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 huddled | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn around | past | earth | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | earth not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | huddle | participle | earth not said here | all, together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fear | the lion | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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