The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 81
So what must she do but seize the pin of the door-bolt and give you a blow on the head and break your head!”
Who acts: lady · What happens: do, seize, give, break · To what, where: pin, blow, you, head
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 (lady), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 seize | cc |
| 7 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pin | det |
| 9 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seize | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bolt | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bolt | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bolt | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 door | punct |
| 14 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pin | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blow | det |
| 19 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 head | det |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blow | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 break | cc |
| 24 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 give | conj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 break | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must | lady | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | seize | infinitive | lady not said here | the pin of the door bolt | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | lady not said here | a blow | you | the head | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient blow=Theme on head=Asset | ||
| 4 | break | infinitive | lady not said here | your head | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=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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