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title: In the same way a third little hare saw the second, and a fourth the… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: In the same way a third little hare saw the second, and a fourth the third, until finally there were a hundred thousand little hares running away together. Who acts: third little hare, thousand little hares. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with it
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 121

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In the same way a third little hare saw the second, and a fourth the third, until finally there were a hundred thousand little hares running away together.

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**Who acts:** third little hare, thousand little hares · **What happens:** see, be, run away · **To what, where:** second, same way

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third little hare, thousand little hares), 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:pg74064:10:125
# text = In the same way a third little hare saw the second, and a fourth the third, until finally there were a hundred thousand little hares running away together.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	until	until	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
20	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
28	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | a third little hare | the second |  | the same way |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer second=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | a third little hare *not said here* |  |  |  | until a thousand little hares |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run away** | gerund | a thousand little hares *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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