The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 112
“But when that dragon-king comes to your hermitage, what ornament does he wear?”
Who acts: dragon king, king · What happens: come, wear · To what, where: hermitage
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon king, king), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wear | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 does | cc |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 comes | mark |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 king | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragon | punct |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 does | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hermitage | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hermitage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ornament | punct |
| 13 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 14 ornament | det |
| 14 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hermitage | conj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wear | aux |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wear | nsubj |
| 17 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 wear | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | that dragon king | your hermitage and what ornament | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hermitage=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | wear in a quote | present · do-support | king | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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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