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title: The Crab And The Monkey — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Crab And The Monkey A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 59

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The Crab And The Monkey

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2435:32:59
# text = The Crab And The Monkey
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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