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title: Seizing the crown, she sprang on to the window, crying: 'Monkey, com… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Seizing the crown, she sprang on to the window, crying: 'Monkey, come to me!' Who acts: parrot, Monkey. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 15

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Seizing the crown, she sprang on to the window, crying: 'Monkey, come to me!'

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**Who acts:** parrot, Monkey · **What happens:** seize, spring on, cry, come · **To what, where:** crown, window, me

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, 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:pg3027:26:15
# text = Seizing the crown, she sprang on to the window, crying: 'Monkey, come to me!'
1	Seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | gerund | parrot *not said here* | the crown |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 2 | **spring on** | past | parrot |  |  | the window |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | parrot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | Monkey |  | me |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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