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title: And straightway she cried out: “Eat me, O griffin! eat me!” — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And straightway she cried out: “Eat me, O griffin! eat me!” Who acts: straightway, griffin. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 115

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And straightway she cried out: “Eat me, O griffin! eat me!”

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**Who acts:** straightway, griffin · **What happens:** cry out, eat · **To what, where:** straightway · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (straightway, griffin), 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:pg74064:16:119
# text = And straightway she cried out: “Eat me, O griffin! eat me!”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	14	mark	_	_
12	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | straightway |  |  |  |  | Straightway *nsubj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | straightway |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | griffin | straightway |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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