--- title: She adorned the boy, laid him in a head-coil of fine cloth, came dow… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: She adorned the boy, laid him in a head-coil of fine cloth, came down from the terrace, and accompanied by a retinue of ministers, went to the elephant-stable, and laid the Future Buddha at the feet of the elephant. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/3/85/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/3/) / 85 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 85 She adorned the boy, laid him in a head-coil of fine cloth, came down from the terrace, and accompanied by a retinue of ministers, went to the elephant-stable, and laid the Future Buddha at the feet of the elephant. **Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** adorn, lay, come down, accompany, go · **To what, where:** boy, head coil, terrace, elephant stable, Future Buddha, feet This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg74064:3:87 # text = She adorned the boy, laid him in a head-coil of fine cloth, came down from the terrace, and accompanied by a retinue of ministers, went to the elephant-stable, and laid the Future Buddha at the feet of the elephant. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 adorned adorn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 coil coil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 down down ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 terrace terrace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 accompanied accompany VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 retinue retinue NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 Future Future PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Buddha Buddha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **adorn** | past | queen | | the boy | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Destination | | 2 | **lay** | past | queen *not said here* | boy | | a head coil of fine cloth | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in coil=Destination | | 3 | **come down** | past | | | | the terrace | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from terrace=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **accompany** | participle | | | | | | by a retinue of ministers | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by retinue=Destination | | 5 | **go** | past | | | | the elephant stable | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **lay** | past | queen *not said here* | the Future Buddha | | the feet of the elephant | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent buddha=Theme at foot=Destination | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/3/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/3/86/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/3/)