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title: _Parallels_.--The Grimms' “Elves” (No. 39) behave in like manner on… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--The Grimms' “Elves” (No. 39) behave in like manner on being rewarded for their services. Who acts: Parallels. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton., sentence 6

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\_Parallels\_.--The Grimms' “Elves” (No. 39) behave in like manner on being rewarded for their services.

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**Who acts:** Parallels · **What happens:** behave in, reward, service

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:88:6
# text = _Parallels_.--The Grimms' “Elves” (No. 39) behave in like manner on being rewarded for their services.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Elves	Elf	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
13	39	39	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
15	behave	behave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behave in** | present | Parallels  Grimms Elves |  |  |  |  | like manner | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like manner=Attribute |
| 2 | **reward** | gerund · passive | Parallels  Grimms Elves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Parallels's services | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for service=Attribute |
| 3 | **service** |  | Parallels *= parallel* |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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