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title: As they were hunting and shouting through the trees a black monkey s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they were hunting and shouting through the trees a black monkey suddenly appeared on a point of rock and said: ‘Poor sorrowing people, you are seeking your Prince in vain. Who acts: followers, black monkey, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1,
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 90

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As they were hunting and shouting through the trees a black monkey suddenly appeared on a point of rock and said: ‘Poor sorrowing people, you are seeking your Prince in vain.

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**Who acts:** followers, black monkey, you · **What happens:** hunt, shout, appear, say, sorrow, seek · **To what, where:** trees, point, Prince, vain, rock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (followers, black monkey, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:1542`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:22:90
# text = As they were hunting and shouting through the trees a black monkey suddenly appeared on a point of rock and said: ‘Poor sorrowing people, you are seeking your Prince in vain.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
24	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	amod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	vocative	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	Prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past · progressive | followers *= follower* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | followers *= follower* *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appear** | past | a black monkey |  |  | a point of rock |  | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on point=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a black monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sorrow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **seek** | present · progressive | you | your Prince |  | vain |  | Poor sorrowing people *vocative* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in vain=Location |
| 7 | **point** |  |  | rock |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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