--- title: Then to Servant Blackie occurred the following thought: “Her ladyshi… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Then to Servant Blackie occurred the following thought: “Her ladyship does, in point of fact, possess an inward temper which she does not reveal;--it is not because she does not possess it. Who acts: Blackie, ladyship, temper. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Openin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/9/57/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/9/) / 57 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 57 Then to Servant Blackie occurred the following thought: “Her ladyship does, in point of fact, possess an inward temper which she does not reveal;--it is not because she does not possess it. **Who acts:** Blackie, ladyship, temper · **What happens:** servant, occur, follow, do, possess, not reveal · **To what, where:** following thought, point, inward temper, fact This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blackie, ladyship, temper), 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:pg74064:9:62 # text = Then to Servant Blackie occurred the following thought: “Her ladyship does, in point of fact, possess an inward temper which she does not reveal;--it is not because she does not possess it. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 Servant servant VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Blackie Blackie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 occurred occur VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 ladyship ladyship NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 possess possess VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 inward inward NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 reveal reveal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 possess possess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **servant** | to-infinitive | | | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **occur** | past | Blackie | the following thought | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | Blackie's ladyship | point of fact | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Eventuality | | 5 | **possess** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a inward temper | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot temper=Theme | | 6 | **not** **reveal** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Blackie | a inward temper | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 7 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present · do-support | temper | | | | | Blackie *nsubj*; point *obj*; possess *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **point** *in a quote* | | | fact | | | | | nom point «cognition 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/9/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/9/58/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/9/)