--- title: So the lion, taking the little hare with him, reassured the throng,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: So the lion, taking the little hare with him, reassured the throng, saying: “I am going to find out for a fact whether or not the earth collapsed at the spot where the little hare saw what he saw; having so done, I will return. Who acts: lion, earth, little hare. A sentence of «The grateful elephant --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/160/) [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/) / 160 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 160 So the lion, taking the little hare with him, reassured the throng, saying: “I am going to find out for a fact whether or not the earth collapsed at the spot where the little hare saw what he saw; having so done, I will return. **Who acts:** lion, earth, little hare · **What happens:** take, reassure, say, go, find out, not collapse · **To what, where:** little hare, throng, fact, spot · **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, earth, little hare), 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:pg74064:10:164 # text = So the lion, taking the little hare with him, reassured the throng, saying: “I am going to find out for a fact whether or not the earth collapsed at the spot where the little hare saw what he saw; having so done, I will return. 1 So so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 reassured reassure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 throng throng NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 whether whether SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 33 mark _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 collapsed collapse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 41 obj _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 47 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 done done ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | gerund | the lion *not said here* | | the little hare | | | with lion | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hare=Destination | | 2 | **reassure** | past | the lion | the throng | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus throng=Experiencer | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the lion *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the lion *= lion* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **find out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the lion *= lion* *not said here* | | | | | for a fact | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **collapse** *in a quote* | past | the earth | a fact *not said here* | | the spot | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | | 7 | **see** *in a quote* | past | the little hare | the spot | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 8 | **see** *in a quote* | past | lion | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund | the lion *not said here* | | | | | done *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **return** *in a quote* | future | the lion *= lion* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/159/) - next →: [sentence 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/161/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/)