--- title: Hurrying to King Monkey, he told him he had found a rich treasure, w… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics description: Hurrying to King Monkey, he told him he had found a rich treasure, which he had not touched because it belonged by right to his majesty the Monkey. Who acts: Monkey, Fox, treasure. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey, Fox, treasure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg19994:120:5 # text = Hurrying to King Monkey, he told him he had found a rich treasure, which he had not touched because it belonged by right to his majesty the Monkey. 1 Hurrying hurry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 to to 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 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurry** | gerund | Monkey *not said here* | | | | | to King Monkey *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to monkey=Result | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Monkey | | Fox | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **find** | past · perfect | Fox | a rich treasure | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | | 4 | **not** **touch** | past · perfect · passive | | a rich treasure | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **belong** | past | treasure | | | | | by right to Fox's majesty the Monkey | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/120/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/120/6/) - ↑ back to [The Fox and the Monkey](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/120/)