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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 80

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The monkey prided himself on turning better somersaults than any of his family, so he instantly went head over heels three times on the bough on which he was sitting, and all the beautiful kakis that he had in his pockets rolled to the ground.

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**Who acts:** monkey, beautiful kakis · **What happens:** pride, turn, go, sit, have, roll · **To what, where:** Monkey, better somersaults, head, heels, bough, pockets

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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, beautiful kakis), 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:pg2435:32:80
# text = The monkey prided himself on turning better somersaults than any of his family, so he instantly went head over heels three times on the bough on which he was sitting, and all the beautiful kakis that he had in his pockets rolled to the ground.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prided	pride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	kakis	kaki	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
44	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pride** | past | the monkey | Monkey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | the monkey *not said here* | better somersaults |  |  |  | than any | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | Monkey | head |  | heels | time | on the bough; instantly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over heel=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | Monkey |  |  | the bough |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 5 | **have** | past | Monkey |  |  | Monkey's pockets |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **roll** | past | all beautiful kakis |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination |

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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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