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title: Soon after everything was ready the monkey jumped down from his tree… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after everything was ready the monkey jumped down from his tree, and creeping to the door began a long hypocritical speech, asking pardon for all he had done. Who acts: everything, ready monkey, creeping, Monkey. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, par
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 87

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Soon after everything was ready the monkey jumped down from his tree, and creeping to the door began a long hypocritical speech, asking pardon for all he had done.

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**Who acts:** everything, ready monkey, creeping, Monkey · **What happens:** be, jump down, creep, begin, ask, do · **To what, where:** tree, door, long hypocritical speech, pardon

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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 (everything, ready monkey, creeping, Monkey), 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:pg2435:32:87
# text = Soon after everything was ready the monkey jumped down from his tree, and creeping to the door began a long hypocritical speech, asking pardon for all he had done.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	hypocritical	hypocritical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	parataxis	_	_
26	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | ready, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **jump down** | past | the ready monkey |  |  | Monkey's tree |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory |
| 3 | **creep** | gerund |  |  |  | the door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination |
| 4 | **begin** | past | creeping | a long hypocritical speech |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Eventuality |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  | pardon |  |  |  | for all | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient |
| 6 | **do** | past · perfect | Monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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