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title: Not knowing what he did, the monkey hit out, first with one hand and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not knowing what he did, the monkey hit out, first with one hand and then with the other, and when he found that he was literally bound hand and foot, he became so mad with anger and terror that in his struggles he fell to the ground, dragging the figure after him. Who acts: breeze, monkey. A senten
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 82

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Not knowing what he did, the monkey hit out, first with one hand and then with the other, and when he found that he was literally bound hand and foot, he became so mad with anger and terror that in his struggles he fell to the ground, dragging the figure after him.

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**Who acts:** breeze, monkey · **What happens:** not know, do, hit out, find, be, become · **To what, where:** bound hand, anger, struggles, figure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (breeze, 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:pg3282:36:82
# text = Not knowing what he did, the monkey hit out, first with one hand and then with the other, and when he found that he was literally bound hand and foot, he became so mad with anger and terror that in his struggles he fell to the ground, dragging the figure after him.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl:unmarked	_	_
44	in	in	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	struggles	struggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	after	after	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | gerund | breeze *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | past | breeze |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hit out** | past | the monkey |  |  |  |  | with one hand; first *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with hand=Instrument |
| 4 | **find** | past | breeze |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | breeze | bound hand and foot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | past | breeze |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **fall** | past | breeze | anger and terror |  | breeze's struggles |  | to the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in struggle=Location |
| 8 | **drag** | gerund | breeze *not said here* | the figure |  |  | after breeze |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme |
| 9 | **struggle** |  | breeze |  |  |  |  |  | nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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