The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 17
The sword, thirty-three inches long, stuck right to the ogre’s hair.
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sword | punct |
| 4 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 three | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 thirty | punct |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 inches | nummod |
| 7 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 long | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 right | punct |
| 10 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 right | amod |
| 11 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 hair | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ogre | det |
| 14 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 ogre | case |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 right | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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