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title: The Monkeys at the sight of the nuts forgot their dancing and became… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Monkeys at the sight of the nuts forgot their dancing and became (as indeed they were) Monkeys instead of actors. Who acts: Monkeys, nuts. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 98

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The Monkeys at the sight of the nuts forgot their dancing and became (as indeed they were) Monkeys instead of actors.

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**Who acts:** Monkeys, nuts · **What happens:** forget, become, be, sight, dance · **To what, where:** dancing, Monkeys, nuts

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkeys, nuts), 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:pg21:9:98
# text = The Monkeys at the sight of the nuts forgot their dancing and became (as indeed they were) Monkeys instead of actors.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	xcomp	_	_
21	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | the Monkeys at the sight of the nuts | nuts's dancing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | the Monkeys at the sight of the nuts *not said here* | Monkeys instead actors |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | past | Monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | the nuts |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **dance** |  | nuts *= nut* |  |  |  |  |  | nom dancing «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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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