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title: For some time the crab saw no more of the monkey, who had gone to pa… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For some time the crab saw no more of the monkey, who had gone to pay a visit on the sunny side of the mountain; but one morning he happened to pass by her hole, and found her sitting under the shadow of a beautiful kaki tree. Who acts: crab, monkey, pilgrim. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» b
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 68

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For some time the crab saw no more of the monkey, who had gone to pay a visit on the sunny side of the mountain; but one morning he happened to pass by her hole, and found her sitting under the shadow of a beautiful kaki tree.

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**Who acts:** crab, monkey, pilgrim · **What happens:** see, go, pay, happen, pass, find · **To what, where:** more, visit, sunny side, pilgrim, shadow, beautiful kaki tree

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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 (crab, monkey, pilgrim), 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:pg2435:32:68
# text = For some time the crab saw no more of the monkey, who had gone to pay a visit on the sunny side of the mountain; but one morning he happened to pass by her hole, and found her sitting under the shadow of a beautiful kaki tree.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	xcomp	_	_
43	under	under	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	kaki	kaki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the crab | more |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | the monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | the monkey *not said here* | a visit |  | the sunny side of the mountain |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
| 4 | **happen** | past | Monkey |  |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by pilgrim's hole | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hole=Location |
| 6 | **find** | past | Monkey *not said here* | pilgrim |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 7 | **sit** | gerund | pilgrim *not said here* |  |  | the shadow of a beautiful kaki tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under shadow=Location |
| 8 | **shadow** |  |  | a beautiful kaki tree |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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