The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 36
When the eggs were hatched, the fledglings broke the shells and came out.
Who acts: fledglings · What happens: hatch, break, come out · To what, where: eggs, shells
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 (fledglings), 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 | _ | 5 hatched | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eggs | det |
| 3 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hatched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hatched | aux:pass |
| 5 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 broke | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hatched | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fledglings | det |
| 8 | fledglings | fledgling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shells | det |
| 11 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 broke | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broke | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | past · passive | the eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | break | past | the fledglings | the shells | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come out | past | the fledglings not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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