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title: Delighted at this discovery, she hastened to the spot, and was carry… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Delighted at this discovery, she hastened to the spot, and was carrying the rice back to her hole when a monkey, who lived in some trees near by, came down to see what the crab was doing. Who acts: pilgrim, monkey, crab. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 63

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Delighted at this discovery, she hastened to the spot, and was carrying the rice back to her hole when a monkey, who lived in some trees near by, came down to see what the crab was doing.

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**Who acts:** pilgrim, monkey, crab · **What happens:** hasten, carry, live, come down, see, do · **To what, where:** spot, rice, trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (pilgrim, monkey, crab), 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:pg2435:32:63
# text = Delighted at this discovery, she hastened to the spot, and was carrying the rice back to her hole when a monkey, who lived in some trees near by, came down to see what the crab was doing.
1	Delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	near	near	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
34	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	41	obj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past | pilgrim |  |  | the spot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination |
| 2 | **carry** | past · progressive | pilgrim *not said here* | the rice |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | a monkey |  |  | some trees |  | near *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
| 4 | **come down** | past | a monkey |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | a monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** | past · progressive | the crab |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 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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