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title: 103; E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 25; A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 103; E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 25; A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 26; Gesta Romanorum 119; and the following stories in Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen: 17 Die weisse Schlange, 60 Die zwei Brüder, 62 Die Bienenkönigin, 85 Die Goldkinder, 107 Die beiden Wanderer, 126 Ferenand getrü und Ferenand ung
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 52

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103; E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 25; A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 26; Gesta Romanorum 119; and the following stories in Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen: 17 Die weisse Schlange, 60 Die zwei Brüder, 62 Die Bienenkönigin, 85 Die Goldkinder, 107 Die beiden Wanderer, 126 Ferenand getrü und Ferenand ungetrü, 191 Das Meerhäschen.

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**What happens:** follow · **To what, where:** 103

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74064:2:55
# text = 103; E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 25; A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 26; Gesta Romanorum 119; and the following stories in Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen: 17 Die weisse Schlange, 60 Die zwei Brüder, 62 Die Bienenkönigin, 85 Die Goldkinder, 107 Die beiden Wanderer, 126 Ferenand getrü und Ferenand ungetrü, 191 Das Meerhäschen.
1	103	103	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Chavannes	Chavannes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Cinq	Cinq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Cents	Cents	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	Contes	Contes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Schiefner	Schiefner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
16	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Gesta	Gesta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
19	Romanorum	Romanorum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	119	119	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	Kinder	Kinder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	und	und	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	Hausmärchen	Hausmärchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
35	Die	Die	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	weisse	weisse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
37	Schlange	Schlange	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	Die	Die	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
41	zwei	zwei	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	42	flat:foreign	_	_
42	Brüder	Brüder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	62	62	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	appos	_	_
45	Die	Die	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:unmarked	_	_
46	Bienenkönigin	Bienenkönigin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	85	85	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	list	_	_
49	Die	Die	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod:unmarked	_	_
50	Goldkinder	Goldkinder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	107	107	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	appos	_	_
53	Die	Die	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod:unmarked	_	_
54	beiden	beiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	flat	_	_
55	Wanderer	Wanderer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	126	126	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	59	nummod	_	_
58	Ferenand	Ferenand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	getrü	getrü	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	list	_	_
60	und	und	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
61	Ferenand	Ferenand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	ungetrü	ungetrü	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
64	191	191	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	62	appos	_	_
65	Das	Das	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	nmod:unmarked	_	_
66	Meerhäschen	Meerhäschen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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