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title: So one night, when everything was still and silent, and even the cha… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So one night, when everything was still and silent, and even the chattering parrots were asleep on one leg, the monkey stole down softly from his perch, and washed off the honey and the leaves, and came out from his bath in his own proper skin. Who acts: everything, chattering parrots, monkey. A sen
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 52

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So one night, when everything was still and silent, and even the chattering parrots were asleep on one leg, the monkey stole down softly from his perch, and washed off the honey and the leaves, and came out from his bath in his own proper skin.

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**Who acts:** everything, chattering parrots, monkey · **What happens:** be, steal down, wash off, come out · **To what, where:** one leg, perch, honey, bath

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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 (everything, chattering parrots, 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:pg3282:36:52
# text = So one night, when everything was still and silent, and even the chattering parrots were asleep on one leg, the monkey stole down softly from his perch, and washed off the honey and the leaves, and came out from his bath in his own proper skin.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	chattering	chattering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	parrots	parrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	perch	perch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
34	off	off	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
43	out	out	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
49	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  | still; night | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the chattering parrots |  |  | one leg |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **steal down** | past | the monkey |  |  | parrot's perch |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wash off** | participle |  | the honey and the leaves |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient |
| 5 | **come out** | past |  |  |  | parrot's bath in parrot's own proper skin |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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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