--- title: Then the monkey rubbed the honey all over him, and a quantity of lea… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the monkey rubbed the honey all over him, and a quantity of leaves from a creeper that was hanging close by; he stuck them all close together into the honey, so that he looked like a walking bush. Who acts: monkey, creeper, puma. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/45/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/) / 45 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 45 Then the monkey rubbed the honey all over him, and a quantity of leaves from a creeper that was hanging close by; he stuck them all close together into the honey, so that he looked like a walking bush. **Who acts:** monkey, creeper, puma · **What happens:** rub, hang, stick, look, walk · **To what, where:** honey, creepers 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, creeper, puma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:36:45 # text = Then the monkey rubbed the honey all over him, and a quantity of leaves from a creeper that was hanging close by; he stuck them all close together into the honey, so that he looked like a walking bush. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 all all ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 quantity quantity NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 creeper creeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 hanging hang VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 all all ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 30 together together ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 38 mark _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 amod _ _ 42 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rub** | past | the monkey | the honey | | | then | over puma; a quantity of leaves from a creeper *obl* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent honey=Theme over he=Destination | | 2 | **hang** | past · progressive | a creeper | | | | | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stick** | past | puma | creepers *= creeper* | | the honey | | close, together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into honey=Destination | | 4 | **look** | past | puma | | | | | like a walking bush | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **walk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/46/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/)