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title: For additional parallels, see J. Bolte und G. Polivka, Anmerkungen z… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For additional parallels, see J. Bolte und G. Polivka, Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm, Märchen 17, 62, 191. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 53

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For additional parallels, see J. Bolte und G. Polivka, Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm, Märchen 17, 62, 191.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** J.

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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: who acts (you), 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:pg74064:2:56
# text = For additional parallels, see J. Bolte und G. Polivka, Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm, Märchen 17, 62, 191.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Bolte	Bolte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	und	und	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	G.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	Polivka	Polivka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Anmerkungen	Anmerkungen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	zu	zu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
15	Kinder	Kinder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	und	und	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	Hausmärchen	Hausmärchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	_
20	Brüder	Brüder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Märchen	Märchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	62	62	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	191	191	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | J. and und G. |  |  |  | for additional parallels | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer j.=Stimulus |

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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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