The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 138
And huddling them all together, he filled his basket, and went home and brought a smile to the lips of his wife.
Who acts: Fowler · What happens: huddle, fill, go, bring · To what, where: Quail, basket, 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 (Fowler), 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 | _ | 2 huddling | cc |
| 2 | huddling | huddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 filled | advcl |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 huddling | obj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 together | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 huddling | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 huddling | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 filled | nsubj |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 basket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filled | parataxis |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brought | cc |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 smile | det |
| 18 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 lips | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lips | det |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brought | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wife | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lips | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | huddle | gerund | Fowler not said here | Quail | together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | past | Fowler | Fowler's basket | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring | past | a smile | the lips of Fowler's wife | 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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