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title: The great trees, chained one to the other by thick flowering plants… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The great trees, chained one to the other by thick flowering plants with bright scarlet or yellow blossoms, were famous hiding-places for the monkeys, who could wait unseen, till a puma or an elephant passed by, and then jump on their backs and go for a ride, swinging themselves up by the creepers w
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 40

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The great trees, chained one to the other by thick flowering plants with bright scarlet or yellow blossoms, were famous hiding-places for the monkeys, who could wait unseen, till a puma or an elephant passed by, and then jump on their backs and go for a ride, swinging themselves up by the creepers when they had had enough.

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**Who acts:** great trees, monkeys, trees · **What happens:** chain, flower, be, wait, pass by, jump · **To what, where:** one, famous hiding places, elephant, backs, trees

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great trees, monkeys, trees), 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:pg3282:35:40
# text = The great trees, chained one to the other by thick flowering plants with bright scarlet or yellow blossoms, were famous hiding-places for the monkeys, who could wait unseen, till a puma or an elephant passed by, and then jump on their backs and go for a ride, swinging themselves up by the creepers when they had had enough.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	chained	chain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	flowering	flower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	till	till	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
46	jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
57	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	56	obj	_	_
58	up	up	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
59	by	by	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	creepers	creeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
62	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	65	advmod	_	_
63	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
66	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chain** | past | the great trees | one |  |  |  | to the other; by thick flowering plants with bright scarlet or yellow blossoms | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient to other=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **flower** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | famous hiding places |  |  |  | for the monkeys | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | could | the monkeys |  |  |  | till a puma or a elephant | unseen *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass by** | participle |  | a elephant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **jump** | infinitive |  |  |  | trees's backs | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for a ride | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ride=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **swing up** | gerund |  | trees *= tree* |  |  |  | by the creepers | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme by creeper=Location |
| 9 | **have** | past · perfect | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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