The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 80

And the younger ascetic, because he saw no more that dragon so fair to see, became more than ever lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins.

Who acts: king, more dragon, younger ascetic · What happens: see, become, lean, dry up, be · To what, where: more dragon

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 (king, more dragon, younger ascetic), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 yellow	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ascetic	det
3	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 ascetic	amod
4	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 yellow	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 saw	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ascetic	acl:relcl
9	no	no	ADV	_	12 dragon	advmod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 dragon	amod
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 dragon	det
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 fair	advmod
14	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dragon	amod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fair	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	parataxis
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 became	xcomp
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 lean	mark
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 lean	advmod
22	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 more	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dried	punct
24	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 became	conj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 up	punct
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 dried	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pale	punct
28	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ascetic	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 yellow	punct
30	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pale	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 ever	case
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 yellow	obl
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 yellow	cop
34	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 body	punct
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 body	nmod:poss
37	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 yellow	conj
38	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 body	amod
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 veins	case
40	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 strewn	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 yellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	king	that more dragon			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus
2	see	to-infinitive	that more dragon not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	become	past				more property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	lean	infinitive			ever		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dry up	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	the younger ascetic			king's body conj; yellow property	tree rules

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 80

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 80