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description: So, without stopping to talk, the guests slung their hammocks, the monkey taking care to place his so high that no one could get at him. Who acts: guests, monkey, one. 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 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 55

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So, without stopping to talk, the guests slung their hammocks, the monkey taking care to place his so high that no one could get at him.

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**Who acts:** guests, monkey, one · **What happens:** stop, talk, sling, take, get · **To what, where:** hammocks, care, place

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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 (guests, monkey, one), 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:pg3282:37:55
# text = So, without stopping to talk, the guests slung their hammocks, the monkey taking care to place his so high that no one could get at him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	slung	sling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hammocks	hammock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund | the guests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **talk** | to-infinitive | the guests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sling** | past | the guests | guests's hammocks |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammock=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | the monkey *not said here* | care |  | place |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent care=Theme to place=Destination |
| 5 | **get** | could | no one |  |  |  |  | at puma | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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