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title: One evening, as they sat by the fountain in the garden, the little m… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening, as they sat by the fountain in the garden, the little monkey kept gazing at Zayda with such sad and loving eyes that she and her mother could not think what to make of it, and they were still more surprised when they saw big tears rolling down his cheeks. Who acts: ladies, little monkey
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 5

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One evening, as they sat by the fountain in the garden, the little monkey kept gazing at Zayda with such sad and loving eyes that she and her mother could not think what to make of it, and they were still more surprised when they saw big tears rolling down his cheeks.

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**Who acts:** ladies, little monkey, Alphege, big tears · **What happens:** sit, keep, gaze, not think, make, be · **To what, where:** garden, big tears, cheeks · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, little monkey, Alphege, big tears), 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:pg640:23:5
# text = One evening, as they sat by the fountain in the garden, the little monkey kept gazing at Zayda with such sad and loving eyes that she and her mother could not think what to make of it, and they were still more surprised when they saw big tears rolling down his cheeks.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Zayda	Zayda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
35	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	37	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
44	still	still	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
45	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	46	advmod	_	_
46	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	ccomp	_	_
50	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	acl	_	_
53	down	down	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | ladies *= lady* |  |  | the garden | evening | by the fountain | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fountain=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the little monkey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gaze** | gerund | the little monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with such sad eyes; at Zayda | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at zayda=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | Alphege |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of garden | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product |
| 6 | **is** | past | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  | still | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | past | ladies *= lady* | big tears |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus |
| 8 | **roll down** | gerund | big tears *not said here* | monkey's cheeks |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Agent |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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