--- title: “Well then, when that dragon-king comes to your hermitage, before he… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: “Well then, when that dragon-king comes to your hermitage, before he has a chance to sit down, ask, saying: ‘Give me the jewel.’ 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/114/) [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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/) / 114 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 114 “Well then, when that dragon-king comes to your hermitage, before he has a chance to sit down, ask, saying: ‘Give me the jewel.’ **Who acts:** dragon king, king · **What happens:** come, have, sit down, ask, say, give · **To what, where:** hermitage, chance, jewel, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:11:121 # text = “Well then, when that dragon-king comes to your hermitage, before he has a chance to sit down, ask, saying: ‘Give me the jewel.’ 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 6 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 7 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 hermitage hermitage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 before before SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 22 down down ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 jewel jewel NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | that dragon king | | | your hermitage | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hermitage=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | king | a chance | | | then | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | | 3 | **sit down** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | a chance *not said here* | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | king *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | king *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the jewel | king | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient jewel=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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/115/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/)