--- title: The illustration to Story 15, _A Buddhist Henny-Penny_, shows the Fu… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: The illustration to Story 15, _A Buddhist Henny-Penny_, shows the Future Buddha, in the form of a lion, setting out with the little hare on his back to discover the cause of the flight of the animals. Who acts: illustration, Buddhist Henny. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/139/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/) / 139 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 139 The illustration to Story 15, \_A Buddhist Henny-Penny\_, shows the Future Buddha, in the form of a lion, setting out with the little hare on his back to discover the cause of the flight of the animals. **Who acts:** illustration, Buddhist Henny · **What happens:** story, show, set out, discover, form, cause · **To what, where:** 15, Future Buddha, back, cause, lion, flight This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (illustration, Buddhist Henny), 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:pg74064:2:143 # text = The illustration to Story 15, _A Buddhist Henny-Penny_, shows the Future Buddha, in the form of a lion, setting out with the little hare on his back to discover the cause of the flight of the animals. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 illustration illustration NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Story story VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl _ _ 5 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Buddhist buddhist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Henny Henny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Penny Penny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 15 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Future Future PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Buddha Buddha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 setting set VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **story** | infinitive | the illustration *not said here* | 15 | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **show** | present | a Buddhist Henny and Penny | the Future Buddha | | | | in the form of a lion; the illustration *ccomp* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent buddha=Patient in form=Topic | | 3 | **set out** | gerund | a Buddhist Henny and Penny *not said here* | | | Henny's back | | with the little hare | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **discover** | to-infinitive | a Buddhist Henny and Penny *not said here* | the cause of the flight of the animals | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic | | 5 | **form** | | | a lion | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **cause** | | | the flight of the animals | | | | | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/138/) - next →: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/140/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/)