--- title: Quick as lightning the crab picked them up and carried a quantity of… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Quick as lightning the crab picked them up and carried a quantity of them into her house, but when she came up for another the monkey sprang on her, and treated her so badly that he left her for dead. Who acts: crab, few, monkey. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/32/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/32/) / 81 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 81 Quick as lightning the crab picked them up and carried a quantity of them into her house, but when she came up for another the monkey sprang on her, and treated her so badly that he left her for dead. **Who acts:** crab, few, monkey · **What happens:** pick up, carry, come up, spring, treat, leave · **To what, where:** somersaults, quantity, house, few 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, few, monkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:32:81 # text = Quick as lightning the crab picked them up and carried a quantity of them into her house, but when she came up for another the monkey sprang on her, and treated her so badly that he left her for dead. 1 Quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 case _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 lightning lightning 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 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 quantity quantity NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 23 up up ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 22 obl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 treated treat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | past | the crab | somersaults *= somersault* | | | | quick lightning | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 2 | **carry** | past | the crab *not said here* | a quantity of somersaults | | few's house | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme | | 3 | **come up** | past | few | | | | | for another | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **spring** | past | the monkey | | | | | on few | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Trajectory | | 5 | **treat** | past | the crab *not said here* | | few | | | badly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 6 | **leave** | past | Monkey | few | | | | for dead | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme for dead=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/32/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/32/82/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/32/)