The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 115
And straightway she cried out: “Eat me, O griffin! eat me!”
Who acts: straightway, griffin · What happens: cry out, eat · To what, where: straightway · 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 (straightway, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 2 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 cried | compound:prt |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Eat | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Eat | punct |
| 8 | Eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eat | punct |
| 11 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 14 eat | mark |
| 12 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 griffin | punct |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Eat | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 eat | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | straightway | Straightway nsubj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | infinitive | straightway | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | infinitive | griffin | straightway | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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