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title: At last one young monkey, bolder than the rest, stooped down and str… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last one young monkey, bolder than the rest, stooped down and stroked the shining shell that the strange new creature wore on its back. Who acts: strange new creature. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 12

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At last one young monkey, bolder than the rest, stooped down and stroked the shining shell that the strange new creature wore on its back.

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**Who acts:** strange new creature · **What happens:** stoop down, stroke, shine, wear · **To what, where:** rest, shining shell, back

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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 (strange new creature), 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:pg641:32:12
# text = At last one young monkey, bolder than the rest, stooped down and stroked the shining shell that the strange new creature wore on its back.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bolder	bold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stroked	stroke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop down** | participle |  | the rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stroke** | past |  | the shining shell |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Experiencer |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | past | the strange new creature |  |  | rest's back |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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 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.

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