The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 48
The little hatchet went and brought the king’s head and laid it at his feet.
Who acts: little hatchet · What happens: go, bring, lay · To what, where: head, feet
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 (little hatchet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hatchet | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hatchet | amod |
| 3 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brought | cc |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laid | cc |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laid | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the little hatchet | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | the little hatchet not said here | the king's head | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | the little hatchet not said here | head | hatchet's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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