The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 21

The more, monks, the gods of the Thirty-three became annoyed, offended, indignant, the more did that ogre become handsome and pleasing to look upon and gracious.

Who acts: monks, more, ogre · What happens: become, do, please, look

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monks, more, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monks	det
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 monks	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 more	punct
4	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 became	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gods	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gods	det
7	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 monks	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 three	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 three	det
10	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 three	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Thirty	punct
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 gods	nmod
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 offended	punct
16	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 annoyed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 indignant	punct
18	indignant	indignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 annoyed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 did	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 more	det
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 did	nsubj
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 became	conj
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 ogre	det
24	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 become	nsubj
25	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 did	ccomp
26	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 become	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pleasing	cc
28	pleasing	please	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 handsome	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 look	mark
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 pleasing	xcomp
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 look	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gracious	cc
33	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 look	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	become	past	the monks and the gods of the Thirty three	annoyed property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	do	past	the more		tree rules
3	become	infinitive	that ogre	handsome property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	please	gerund	that ogre not said here		tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive	that ogre not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 21