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title: For weeks the monkey and the shark breakfasted together, and it was… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For weeks the monkey and the shark breakfasted together, and it was a wonder that the tree had any fruit left for them. Who acts: monkey, tree. 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 38

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For weeks the monkey and the shark breakfasted together, and it was a wonder that the tree had any fruit left for them.

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**Who acts:** monkey, tree · **What happens:** breakfast, be, have, leave · **To what, where:** monkey, wonder, fruit

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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, tree), 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:pg3454:5:38
# text = For weeks the monkey and the shark breakfasted together, and it was a wonder that the tree had any fruit left for them.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	breakfasted	breakfast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breakfast** | participle · passive |  | the monkey and the shark |  |  | week | together *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | monkey | a wonder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | the tree | any fruit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | participle |  | any fruit *not said here* |  |  |  | for sharks *= shark* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for they=Recipient |

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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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