The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 3
On the way he came to a certain forest infested by an ogre named Sticky-hair.
Who acts: prince, ogre · What happens: come, infest, name · To what, where: way, certain forest, Sticky 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: who acts (prince, ogre), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forest | amod |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | infested | infest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 forest | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 ogre | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ogre | det |
| 13 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 infested | obl |
| 14 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ogre | acl |
| 15 | Sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hair | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sticky | punct |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 named | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | prince | the way | to a certain forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | infest | participle | a certain forest not said here | by a ogre | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | a ogre not said here | Sticky hair | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
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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