The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 117
When they fall to wrangling, I will return with them all and bring a smile to your lips.”
Who acts: Quail, I · What happens: fall, return, bring · To what, where: smile, lips
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quail, I), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 fall | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 return | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 wrangling | case |
| 5 | wrangling | wrangling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 return | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 return | aux |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 return | obl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 return | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 smile | det |
| 16 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 lips | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lips | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bring | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 return | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Quail | to wrangling | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wrangling=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | future | I | with Quail | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | I not said here | a smile | your lips | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent smile=Theme to lip=Destination |
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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