--- title: The lion thought: “Evidently a Vilva fruit fell on top of that cocoa… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: The lion thought: “Evidently a Vilva fruit fell on top of that cocoanut leaf and made a ‘rat-a-tat,’ and this hare here, hearing that sound, came to the conclusion: ‘The earth is collapsing!’ Who acts: lion, Vilva fruit, that, earth. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/158/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/) / 158 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 158 The lion thought: “Evidently a Vilva fruit fell on top of that cocoanut leaf and made a ‘rat-a-tat,’ and this hare here, hearing that sound, came to the conclusion: ‘The earth is collapsing!’ **Who acts:** lion, Vilva fruit, that, earth · **What happens:** think, fall, make, sound, come, collapse · **To what, where:** top, rat tat, conclusion · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (lion, Vilva fruit, that, earth), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:10:162 # text = The lion thought: “Evidently a Vilva fruit fell on top of that cocoanut leaf and made a ‘rat-a-tat,’ and this hare here, hearing that sound, came to the conclusion: ‘The earth is collapsing!’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Evidently evidently ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Vilva Vilva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 15 cocoanut cocoanut NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 tat tat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 31 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 conclusion conclusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 42 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 collapsing collapse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ! ! PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the lion | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | a Vilva fruit | | | top of that cocoanut leaf | | evidently *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | past | a Vilva fruit *not said here* | a rat tat | | here | | this hare *conj*; hearing and sound *parataxis* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tat=Product | | 4 | **sound** *in a quote* | | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past | a Vilva fruit *not said here* | | | the conclusion | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **collapse** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the earth | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/157/) - next →: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/159/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/)