The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 114
When the old woman heard those words, she was frightened and terrified, for she thought that the griffin had come.
Who acts: old woman, woman, griffin · What happens: hear, frighten, think, come · To what, where: words, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, griffin), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | advcl |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | aux:pass |
| 11 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 terrified | cc |
| 13 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 frightened | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 thought | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 come | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 griffin | det |
| 20 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the old woman | that words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | woman | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | the griffin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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