The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 52
103; E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 25; A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 26; Gesta Romanorum 119; and the following stories in Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen: 17 Die weisse Schlange, 60 Die zwei Brüder, 62 Die Bienenkönigin, 85 Die Goldkinder, 107 Die beiden Wanderer, 126 Ferenand getrü und Ferenand ungetrü, 191 Das Meerhäschen.
What happens: follow · To what, where: 103
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. 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 | 103 | 103 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 Chavannes | punct |
| 3 | E. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chavannes | compound |
| 4 | Chavannes | Chavannes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 103 | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Cents | punct |
| 6 | Cinq | Cinq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cents | compound |
| 7 | Cents | Cents | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chavannes | appos |
| 8 | Contes | Contes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cents | flat |
| 9 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Cents | flat |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Schiefner | punct |
| 11 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Schiefner | compound |
| 12 | Schiefner | Schiefner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chavannes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tales | punct |
| 14 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tales | compound |
| 15 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Schiefner | appos |
| 16 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Tales | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Gesta | punct |
| 18 | Gesta | Gesta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chavannes | conj |
| 19 | Romanorum | Romanorum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Gesta | flat |
| 20 | 119 | 119 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Gesta | list |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stories | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stories | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stories | det |
| 24 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 stories | amod |
| 25 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Chavannes | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Grimm | case |
| 27 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 stories | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 und | punct |
| 29 | Kinder | Kinder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 und | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Kinder | punct |
| 31 | und | und | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Grimm | appos |
| 32 | Hausmärchen | Hausmärchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 und | appos |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 weisse | punct |
| 34 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 weisse | nummod |
| 35 | Die | Die | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 weisse | compound |
| 36 | weisse | weisse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Chavannes | conj |
| 37 | Schlange | Schlange | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 weisse | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Die | punct |
| 39 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 Die | nummod |
| 40 | Die | Die | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chavannes | conj |
| 41 | zwei | zwei | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 Brüder | flat:foreign |
| 42 | Brüder | Brüder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Die | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 62 | punct |
| 44 | 62 | 62 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 Die | appos |
| 45 | Die | Die | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 62 | nmod:unmarked |
| 46 | Bienenkönigin | Bienenkönigin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Die | flat |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 85 | punct |
| 48 | 85 | 85 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 Die | list |
| 49 | Die | Die | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 85 | nmod:unmarked |
| 50 | Goldkinder | Goldkinder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Die | flat |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 107 | punct |
| 52 | 107 | 107 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 49 Die | appos |
| 53 | Die | Die | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 107 | nmod:unmarked |
| 54 | beiden | beiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Die | flat |
| 55 | Wanderer | Wanderer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Die | flat |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 126 | punct |
| 57 | 126 | 126 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 59 getrü | nummod |
| 58 | Ferenand | Ferenand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 getrü | compound |
| 59 | getrü | getrü | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 Die | list |
| 60 | und | und | ADV | _ | 62 ungetrü | advmod |
| 61 | Ferenand | Ferenand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 ungetrü | compound |
| 62 | ungetrü | ungetrü | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 getrü | appos |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 191 | punct |
| 64 | 191 | 191 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 62 ungetrü | appos |
| 65 | Das | Das | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 191 | nmod:unmarked |
| 66 | Meerhäschen | Meerhäschen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 Das | flat |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 103 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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