The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 130
Like a lad with sand-washed sword in hand, You frighten me, asking for the stone.
Who acts: You · What happens: wash, frighten, ask · To what, where: me
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 (You), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 lad | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 frighten | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 washed | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sand | punct |
| 7 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sword | amod |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lad | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sword | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lad | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 frighten | nsubj |
| 13 | frighten | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 frighten | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asking | punct |
| 16 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 frighten | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 stone | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 frighten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | participle | sand compound | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | frighten | present | You | me | like a lad with washed sword in hand | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | You not said here | for the stone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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