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title: The praise that was showered on the Monkey made the Camel envious. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The praise that was showered on the Monkey made the Camel envious. Who acts: praise. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Camel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 3

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The praise that was showered on the Monkey made the Camel envious.

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**Who acts:** praise · **What happens:** shower, make · **To what, where:** praise, Camel

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Camel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (praise), 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:pg19994:42:3
# text = The praise that was showered on the Monkey made the Camel envious.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	showered	shower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	made	make	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	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shower** | past · passive |  | the praise |  |  |  | on the Monkey | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on monkey=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | past | the praise | the Camel |  |  |  | envious *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camel=Product |

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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 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.

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