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description: The banana grove was not far distant, and here the puma thought he would pay the monkey out for forcing him to carry him over the river. Who acts: banana grove, puma. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 39

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The banana grove was not far distant, and here the puma thought he would pay the monkey out for forcing him to carry him over the river.

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**Who acts:** banana grove, puma · **What happens:** not be, think, pay out, force, carry · **To what, where:** monkey, puma, river · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (banana grove, puma), 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:pg3282:37:39
# text = The banana grove was not far distant, and here the puma thought he would pay the monkey out for forcing him to carry him over the river.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	forcing	force	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the banana grove |  |  |  |  | distant, far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the puma |  |  | here |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **pay out** | would | puma | the monkey |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Asset |
| 4 | **force** | gerund | puma *not said here* | puma |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **carry** | to-infinitive | puma *not said here* | puma |  | the river |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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