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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 35

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He would hide himself in a thicket, and when the monkey came down to drink—and come he must—the puma would spring out and seize him.

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**Who acts:** chance, monkey, puma · **What happens:** hide, come down, drink, come, spring out, seize · **To what, where:** chance, thicket

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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 (chance, monkey, puma), 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:pg3282:36:35
# text = He would hide himself in a thicket, and when the monkey came down to drink—and come he must—the puma would spring out and seize him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | would | chance | chance |  | a thicket |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in thicket=Location |
| 2 | **come down** | past | the monkey |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **spring out** | would | the puma |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **seize** | infinitive | the puma *not said here* | chance |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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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