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title: Indeed, when they saw the monkey approaching not long after, they ru… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, when they saw the monkey approaching not long after, they rushed to meet him, hoping that he was bringing them some more presents. Who acts: children, monkey, fish. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, with its dependency tree and
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 19

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Indeed, when they saw the monkey approaching not long after, they rushed to meet him, hoping that he was bringing them some more presents.

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**Who acts:** children, monkey, fish · **What happens:** see, approach, rush, meet, hope, bring · **To what, where:** monkey, fish, children

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, monkey, fish), 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:pg3282:36:19
# text = Indeed, when they saw the monkey approaching not long after, they rushed to meet him, hoping that he was bringing them some more presents.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	after	after	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | children *= child* | the monkey |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus |
| 2 | **approach** | gerund | the monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | after *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **hope** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **bring** | past · progressive | fish | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination present=Theme |

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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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