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title: She never went back to the hut, but on the whole she was not much to… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She never went back to the hut, but on the whole she was not much to be pitied, for monkeys are nearly as good as children to play with, and they taught her how to swing, and to climb, and to fly from tree to tree, and everything else they knew, which was a great deal. Who acts: woman, monkeys, chil
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 27

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She never went back to the hut, but on the whole she was not much to be pitied, for monkeys are nearly as good as children to play with, and they taught her how to swing, and to climb, and to fly from tree to tree, and everything else they knew, which was a great deal.

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**Who acts:** woman, monkeys, children · **What happens:** not go back, not be, pity, be, play, teach · **To what, where:** woman, tree, everything, great deal

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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 (woman, monkeys, children), 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:pg3282:36:27
# text = She never went back to the hut, but on the whole she was not much to be pitied, for monkeys are nearly as good as children to play with, and they taught her how to swing, and to climb, and to fly from tree to tree, and everything else they knew, which was a great deal.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	pitied	pity	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	iobj	_	_
37	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	swing	swing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	parataxis	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
54	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	57	obj	_	_
55	else	else	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
59	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	nsubj	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go back** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | to the hut *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pity** | to-infinitive · passive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 4 | **is** | present | monkeys |  |  |  |  | as children; good, nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **play** | to-infinitive | monkeys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | children *= child* |  | woman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **swing** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **climb** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **fly** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | tree |  | to tree | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from tree=Initial\_Location to tree=Destination |
| 10 | **know** | past | children *= child* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
| 11 | **is a** | past |  | a great deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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