The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 68
With Story 14, Part 1, _Gem, hatchet, drum, and bowl_, compare Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen: 36 Tischchen deck dich, Goldesel, und Knüppel aus dem Sack; 54 Der Ranzen, das Hütlein, und das Hörnlein.
Who acts: Gem, und Knüppel aus · What happens: compare, sack · To what, where: Grimm
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: who acts (Gem, und Knüppel aus), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 Story | case |
| 2 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 compare | obl |
| 3 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Story | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Part | punct |
| 5 | Part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Story | appos |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Part | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Story | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gem | punct |
| 9 | Gem | gem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 compare | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hatchet | punct |
| 11 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Gem | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drum | punct |
| 13 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Gem | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bowl | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bowl | cc |
| 16 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Gem | appos |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 bowl | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 compare | punct |
| 19 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 compare | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 und | punct |
| 22 | Kinder | Kinder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 und | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Kinder | punct |
| 24 | und | und | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Grimm | appos |
| 25 | Hausmärchen | Hausmärchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Grimm | flat |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 36 | punct |
| 27 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 compare | obl |
| 28 | Tischchen | Tischchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 36 | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dich | compound |
| 30 | dich | dich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Tischchen | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Goldesel | punct |
| 32 | Goldesel | Goldesel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Tischchen | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Sack | punct |
| 34 | und | und | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 aus | amod |
| 35 | Knüppel | Knüppel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 aus | compound |
| 36 | aus | au | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 Sack | nsubj |
| 37 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Sack | compound |
| 38 | Sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Tischchen | appos |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 54 | punct |
| 40 | 54 | 54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 compare | parataxis |
| 41 | Der | Der | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Hörnlein | compound |
| 42 | Ranzen | Ranzen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Der | flat |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 das | punct |
| 44 | das | da | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 Der | conj |
| 45 | Hütlein | Hütlein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Der | flat |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 das | punct |
| 47 | und | und | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 das | amod |
| 48 | das | da | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 Der | conj |
| 49 | Hörnlein | Hörnlein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 54 | nmod:unmarked |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | infinitive | Gem and hatchet and drum | Grimm | with Story 14; 36 Tischchen and Goldesel obl; 54 Der Hörnlein parataxis | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent grimm=Patient with story=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | sack | und Knüppel aus | 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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