The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 135
One day there came to his cave a lion and a lioness and their cub.
What happens: come · To what, where: lion, cave
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cave | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lion | det |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lioness | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lioness | det |
| 12 | lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lion | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cub | cc |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cub | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lion | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a lion and a lioness and lions's cub | monkey's cave; there | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location |
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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