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title: Terrified with fear of the lion, they turned around and stood all hu… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Terrified with fear of the lion, they turned around and stood all huddled together. Who acts: earth. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 135

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Terrified with fear of the lion, they turned around and stood all huddled together.

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**Who acts:** earth · **What happens:** turn around, stand, huddle, fear · **To what, where:** lion

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:10:139
# text = Terrified with fear of the lion, they turned around and stood all huddled together.
1	Terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	around	around	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	huddled	huddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn around** | past | earth |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **huddle** | participle | earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all, together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fear** |  |  | the lion |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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 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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