--- title: It was some time before he caught sight of any monkeys, and he often… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was some time before he caught sight of any monkeys, and he often grew tired with watching for them, so that one hot day he fell fast asleep, in spite of all his efforts to keep awake. Who acts: thing, council. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Monkey and the Jelly-fish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/) / 10 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 10 It was some time before he caught sight of any monkeys, and he often grew tired with watching for them, so that one hot day he fell fast asleep, in spite of all his efforts to keep awake. **Who acts:** thing, council · **What happens:** be, catch, grow, watch, fall, keep · **To what, where:** time, sight, spite, monkeys, efforts This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, council), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:32:10 # text = It was some time before he caught sight of any monkeys, and he often grew tired with watching for them, so that one hot day he fell fast asleep, in spite of all his efforts to keep awake. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 with with SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 29 mark _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 38 det:predet _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 efforts effort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 41 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | thing | some time | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **catch** | past | council | sight of any monkeys | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past | council | | | | | often, tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **watch** | gerund | council *not said here* | | | | | for monkeys *= monkey* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | council | | | spite of council's efforts | day | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location | | 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | council *not said here* | | | | | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sight** | | | any monkeys | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **spite** | | | council's efforts | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/11/) - ↑ back to [The Monkey and the Jelly-fish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/)