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title: The King rode on a huge Elephant adorned with the most gorgeous trap… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The King rode on a huge Elephant adorned with the most gorgeous trappings. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rat and the Elephant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 5

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The King rode on a huge Elephant adorned with the most gorgeous trappings.

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**What happens:** adorn · **To what, where:** huge Elephant

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rat and the Elephant. 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.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:31:5
# text = The King rode on a huge Elephant adorned with the most gorgeous trappings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rode	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trappings	trapping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adorn** | participle |  | a huge Elephant *not said here* |  |  |  | with the gorgeous trappings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with trapping=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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