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title: “But when that dragon-king comes to your hermitage, what ornament do… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “But when that dragon-king comes to your hermitage, what ornament does he wear?” Who acts: dragon king, king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 112

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“But when that dragon-king comes to your hermitage, what ornament does he wear?”

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**Who acts:** dragon king, king · **What happens:** come, wear · **To what, where:** hermitage

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon king, king), 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:pg74064:11:119
# text = “But when that dragon-king comes to your hermitage, what ornament does he wear?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hermitage	hermitage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | that dragon king |  |  | your hermitage and what ornament |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hermitage=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wear** *in a quote* | present · do-support | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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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