Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 82
The Elephant, not knowing what had happened, rushed round the arena, bellowing with rage and pain, and smashing everything within reach of his trunk.
Who acts: Elephant · What happens: not know, happen, rush, bellow, smash · To what, where: arena, everything, Elephant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elephant), 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 Elephant | det |
| 2 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knowing | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 knowing | advmod |
| 5 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Elephant | acl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 knowing | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rushed | punct |
| 10 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 happened | conj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 arena | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 arena | det |
| 13 | arena | arena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rushed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bellowing | punct |
| 15 | bellowing | bellow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 knowing | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 rage | case |
| 17 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bellowing | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pain | cc |
| 19 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rage | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 smashing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 smashing | cc |
| 22 | smashing | smash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 bellowing | conj |
| 23 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 smashing | obj |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 reach | case |
| 25 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smashing | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trunk | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 28 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reach | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Elephant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | the Elephant not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rush | participle | the arena | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round arena=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | bellow | gerund | the Elephant not said here | with rage and pain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme | ||||
| 5 | smash | gerund | the Elephant not said here | everything | within reach of Elephant's trunk | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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