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title: The wax figure took no notice of this request, so the monkey, who wa… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wax figure took no notice of this request, so the monkey, who was easily made angry, picked up a stone, and flung it with all his force. Who acts: wax figure. 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 pragm
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 74

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The wax figure took no notice of this request, so the monkey, who was easily made angry, picked up a stone, and flung it with all his force.

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**Who acts:** wax figure · **What happens:** take, make, pick up, fling, notice · **To what, where:** notice, monkey, figure, request

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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 (wax figure), 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:pg3282:36:74
# text = The wax figure took no notice of this request, so the monkey, who was easily made angry, picked up a stone, and flung it with all his force.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the wax figure | no notice of this request |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | the monkey |  |  |  | angry, easily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **pick up** | participle · passive |  | the monkey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fling** | past | the wax figure *not said here* | figure |  |  |  | with man's force | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **notice** |  |  | this request |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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