--- title: The illustration to Story 2, _Grateful animals and ungrateful man_,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: The illustration to Story 2, _Grateful animals and ungrateful man_, represents the pampered prince astride of a tree-trunk, accompanied by his three companions, a snake, a rat, and a parrot, swept along by the river amid storm and darkness. Who acts: illustration. A sentence of «The grateful elephan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/99/) [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/) / 99 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 99 The illustration to Story 2, \_Grateful animals and ungrateful man\_, represents the pampered prince astride of a tree-trunk, accompanied by his three companions, a snake, a rat, and a parrot, swept along by the river amid storm and darkness. **Who acts:** illustration · **What happens:** represent, pamper, accompany, sweep along · **To what, where:** pampered prince, tree trunk, parrot 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), 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:pg74064:2:103 # text = The illustration to Story 2, _Grateful animals and ungrateful man_, represents the pampered prince astride of a tree-trunk, accompanied by his three companions, a snake, a rat, and a parrot, swept along by the river amid storm and darkness. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 illustration illustration NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Story Story PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Grateful grateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 ungrateful ungrateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 represents represent 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 pampered pamper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 astride astride ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 accompanied accompany VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 swept sweep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 43 along along ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 by by ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 47 amid amid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **represent** | present | the illustration to Story | the pampered prince | | | | astride a tree trunk; a parrot *parataxis* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | | 2 | **pamper** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **accompany** | participle | | a tree trunk *not said here* | | | | by man's three companions and a snake and a rat | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by companion=Destination | | 4 | **sweep along** | participle | | a parrot *not said here* | | | | by the river amid storm and darkness; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by storm=Trajectory | 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/100/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/)