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title: Often and often the puma had laid traps for the monkey, which he fel… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Often and often the puma had laid traps for the monkey, which he felt sure his foe could not escape; and the monkey would pretend that he saw nothing, and rejoice the hidden puma’s heart by seeming to walk straight into the snare, when, lo! a loud laugh would be heard, and the monkey’s grinning face
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 30

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Often and often the puma had laid traps for the monkey, which he felt sure his foe could not escape; and the monkey would pretend that he saw nothing, and rejoice the hidden puma’s heart by seeming to walk straight into the snare, when, lo! a loud laugh would be heard, and the monkey’s grinning face would peer out of a mass of creepers and disappear before his foe could reach him.

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**Who acts:** monkey, foe, cause, grinning face · **What happens:** lay, feel, not escape, pretend, see, rejoice · **To what, where:** puma, nothing, heart, snare, loud laugh, cause

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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 (monkey, foe, cause, grinning face), 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:pg3282:36:30
# text = Often and often the puma had laid traps for the monkey, which he felt sure his foe could not escape; and the monkey would pretend that he saw nothing, and rejoice the hidden puma’s heart by seeming to walk straight into the snare, when, lo! a loud laugh would be heard, and the monkey’s grinning face would peer out of a mass of creepers and disappear before his foe could reach him.
1	Often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
40	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	seeming	seem	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
51	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	58	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	58	punct	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
56	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	’s	's	PART	POS	_	62	case	_	_
64	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	65	amod	_	_
65	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nsubj	_	_
66	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
67	peer	peer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	conj	_	_
68	out	out	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
69	of	of	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	_
72	of	of	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
73	creepers	creeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	71	nmod	_	_
74	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
75	disappear	disappear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	67	conj	_	_
76	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	80	mark	_	_
77	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	78	nmod:poss	_	_
78	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	nsubj	_	_
79	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	80	aux	_	_
80	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	75	advcl	_	_
81	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	80	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past · perfect · passive |  | the puma |  |  |  | often *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **feel** | past | the monkey |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **escape** | could | cause's foe |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pretend** | would | the monkey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past | cause | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 6 | **rejoice** | infinitive | the monkey *not said here* | the hidden puma's heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **seem** | gerund | the monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 8 | **walk** | to-infinitive | the monkey *not said here* | the snare |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snare=Trajectory |
| 9 | **hear** | would · passive |  | a loud laugh |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 10 | **grin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **peer** | would | the monkey's grinning face |  |  |  |  | out a mass of creepers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out mass=Theme |
| 12 | **disappear** | present | the monkey's grinning face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 13 | **reach** | could | cause's foe | cause |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=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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