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title: But the monkey, who had been watching out of the corner of his eye,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the monkey, who had been watching out of the corner of his eye, waited until the puma drew near, and with a violent kick upset the bowl all over the puma himself. Who acts: monkey, puma. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, with its d
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 58

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But the monkey, who had been watching out of the corner of his eye, waited until the puma drew near, and with a violent kick upset the bowl all over the puma himself.

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**Who acts:** monkey, puma · **What happens:** watch out, wait, draw, upset · **To what, where:** corner, bowl, puma

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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 (monkey, 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:pg3282:37:58
# text = But the monkey, who had been watching out of the corner of his eye, waited until the puma drew near, and with a violent kick upset the bowl all over the puma himself.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	near	near	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	upset	upset	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch out** | past · perfect · progressive | the monkey | the corner of puma's eye |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | past | the monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | past | the puma |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **upset** | past | the monkey *not said here* | the bowl |  | the puma |  | with a violent kick; puma *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bowl=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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