The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 162
So taking the little hare on his back, he sprang forward with the speed of a lion.
Who acts: lion · What happens: take, spring · To what, where: little hare, back
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 (lion), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 taking | advmod |
| 2 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sprang | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hare | amod |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taking | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 taking | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sprang | nsubj |
| 11 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 11 sprang | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 speed | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 speed | det |
| 15 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lion | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lion | det |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 speed | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | lion not said here | the little hare | lion's back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hare=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | spring | past | lion | with the speed of a lion; forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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