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title: And the monkey grew tired of picking the kuyu long before the shark… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the monkey grew tired of picking the kuyu long before the shark was tired of eating them. Who acts: monkey, shark. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 35

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And the monkey grew tired of picking the kuyu long before the shark was tired of eating them.

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**Who acts:** monkey, shark · **What happens:** grow, pick, be, eat · **To what, where:** kuyu, sharks

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, shark), 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:pg3454:5:35
# text = And the monkey grew tired of picking the kuyu long before the shark was tired of eating them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kuyu	kuyu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	obj	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the monkey |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pick** | gerund | the monkey *not said here* | the kuyu |  |  |  | long *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kuyu=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the shark |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | the shark *not said here* | sharks *= shark* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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