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title: Twilight came on with the fowler still busy disentangling the net fr… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Twilight came on with the fowler still busy disentangling the net from the brake, and he went away absolutely empty-handed. Who acts: Twilight. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 108

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Twilight came on with the fowler still busy disentangling the net from the brake, and he went away absolutely empty-handed.

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**Who acts:** Twilight · **What happens:** come on, disentangle, go away, hand · **To what, where:** net

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twilight), 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:pg74064:5:112
# text = Twilight came on with the fowler still busy disentangling the net from the brake, and he went away absolutely empty-handed.
1	Twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	disentangling	disentangle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | past | Twilight |  |  |  |  | with the fowler | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **disentangle** | gerund | Twilight *not said here* | the net |  |  |  | from the brake | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent net=Patient from brake=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **go away** | past | Twilight |  |  |  |  | absolutely, away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hand** | participle | Twilight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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