--- title: The monkey quietly climbed up the nearest tree, and ate fruit most o… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The monkey quietly climbed up the nearest tree, and ate fruit most of the day, but the rabbit tired himself to death poking his nose into every heap of dried leaves he saw, hoping to find a serpent among them. Who acts: monkey, death, credit. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, death, credit), 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:pg3282:36:63 # text = The monkey quietly climbed up the nearest tree, and ate fruit most of the day, but the rabbit tired himself to death poking his nose into every heap of dried leaves he saw, hoping to find a serpent among them. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 poking poke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 among among ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb up** | past | the monkey | the nearest tree | | | | quietly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | past | the monkey *not said here* | fruit most of the day | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | | 3 | **poke** | gerund | death *not said here* | credit's nose | | | | into every heap of dried leaves | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent nose=Instrument into heap=Patient | | 4 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **see** | past | credit | dried leaves *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leaf=Stimulus | | 6 | **hope** | gerund | the monkey *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the monkey *not said here* | a serpent | | | | among serpents *= serpent* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/64/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/)