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title: The Elephant, not knowing what had happened, rushed round the arena,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Elephant, not knowing what had happened, rushed round the arena, bellowing with rage and pain, and smashing everything within reach of his trunk. Who acts: Elephant. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children., with its dependency
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 82

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The Elephant, not knowing what had happened, rushed round the arena, bellowing with rage and pain, and smashing everything within reach of his trunk.

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**Who acts:** Elephant · **What happens:** not know, happen, rush, bellow, smash · **To what, where:** arena, everything, Elephant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elephant), 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:pg75000:13:82
# text = The Elephant, not knowing what had happened, rushed round the arena, bellowing with rage and pain, and smashing everything within reach of his trunk.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	arena	arena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	bellowing	bellow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	smashing	smash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
23	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	_
24	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | gerund | the Elephant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | participle |  |  |  | the arena |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round arena=Trajectory |
| 4 | **bellow** | gerund | the Elephant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rage and pain | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme |
| 5 | **smash** | gerund | the Elephant *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | within reach of Elephant's trunk | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |

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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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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