The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 29
And when he had become the fairy-prince, the ministers of the kingdom came to him and said: “O fairy-prince, do reverence always to this wishing-tree, for it grants all desires, and cannot be resisted by any living creature.
Who acts: father, ministers, fairy prince, reverence, living creature · What happens: become, come, say, do, grant, not resist · To what, where: fairy prince, father, reverence, desires · 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 (father, ministers, fairy prince, reverence), 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 | _ | 5 become | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 become | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 become | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | aux |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 came | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prince | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fairy | punct |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 become | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ministers | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ministers | det |
| 12 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 came | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ministers | nmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 prince | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 prince | punct |
| 23 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 26 prince | discourse |
| 24 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 prince | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 fairy | punct |
| 26 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 prince | acl:relcl |
| 29 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 35 tree | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 tree | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 tree | det |
| 33 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tree | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 wishing | punct |
| 35 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 grants | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 grants | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 grants | nsubj |
| 39 | grants | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | conj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 desires | det |
| 41 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 grants | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 resisted | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 resisted | cc |
| 44 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 resisted | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 resisted | advmod |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 resisted | aux:pass |
| 47 | resisted | resist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 came | conj |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 creature | case |
| 49 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 51 creature | det |
| 50 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 creature | amod |
| 51 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 resisted | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | father | the fairy prince | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the ministers of the kingdom | father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the ministers of the kingdom not said here | fairy prince ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | fairy prince not said here | reverence | to this wishing tree | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | grant in a quote | present | reverence | all desires | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not resist in a quote | can · passive | any living creature | 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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