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title: In another moment he was swinging himself from branch to branch, eat… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In another moment he was swinging himself from branch to branch, eating all the ripest kakis and filling his pockets with the rest, and the poor crab saw to her disgust that the few he threw down to her were either not ripe at all or else quite rotten. Who acts: Monkey, poor crab, few, Pray. A sente
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 76

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In another moment he was swinging himself from branch to branch, eating all the ripest kakis and filling his pockets with the rest, and the poor crab saw to her disgust that the few he threw down to her were either not ripe at all or else quite rotten.

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**Who acts:** Monkey, poor crab, few, Pray · **What happens:** swing, eat, fill, see, throw down, not ripe · **To what, where:** Monkey, branch, ripest kakis, pockets, all

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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 (Monkey, poor crab, few, Pray), 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:pg2435:32:76
# text = In another moment he was swinging himself from branch to branch, eating all the ripest kakis and filling his pockets with the rest, and the poor crab saw to her disgust that the few he threw down to her were either not ripe at all or else quite rotten.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	ripest	ripe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	kakis	kaki	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	nsubj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
39	down	down	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
43	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc:preconj	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	ripe	ripe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	obj	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	else	else	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | past · progressive | Monkey | Monkey |  | branch |  | to branch *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient himself=Extent from branch=Initial\_State to branch=Result |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | Monkey *not said here* | all ripest kakis |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kaki=Patient |
| 3 | **fill** | gerund | Monkey *not said here* | Monkey's pockets |  |  |  | with the rest | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with rest=Instrument |
| 4 | **see** | past | the poor crab |  |  |  | moment | to Pray's disgust | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **throw down** | past | the few |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **ripe** | past | the few *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **disgust** |  | Pray |  |  |  |  |  | nom disgust «feeling 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:** «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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