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title: The monkey, who was stooping to drink, heard a rustling, and turning… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The monkey, who was stooping to drink, heard a rustling, and turning caught the gleam of two yellow, murderous eyes. Who acts: monkey. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 38

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The monkey, who was stooping to drink, heard a rustling, and turning caught the gleam of two yellow, murderous eyes.

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**Who acts:** monkey · **What happens:** stoop, drink, hear, turn, catch · **To what, where:** rustling, gleam

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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), 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:pg3282:36:38
# text = The monkey, who was stooping to drink, heard a rustling, and turning caught the gleam of two yellow, murderous eyes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	nsubj	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
21	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	murderous	murderous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past · progressive | the monkey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | the monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | the monkey | a rustling |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus |
| 4 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **catch** | past |  | the gleam of two yellow murderous eyes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gleam=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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