--- title: At the sight of the gay and lively monkey crouching under a tall roc… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the sight of the gay and lively monkey crouching under a tall rock, with his eyes closed and his head bent, the jelly-fish was filled with pity, and stopped, saying, ‘Ah, poor fellow, no wonder you weep; a few days more, and they will come and kill you and give your liver to the queen to eat.’ Wh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/25/) [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/) / 25 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 25 At the sight of the gay and lively monkey crouching under a tall rock, with his eyes closed and his head bent, the jelly-fish was filled with pity, and stopped, saying, ‘Ah, poor fellow, no wonder you weep; a few days more, and they will come and kill you and give your liver to the queen to eat.’ **Who acts:** gay monkey, eyes, head, you, fishes · **What happens:** crouch, close, bend, fill, stop, say · **To what, where:** tall rock, jelly fish, sight, wonder, you, liver · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (gay monkey, eyes, head, you), 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:pg641:32:25 # text = At the sight of the gay and lively monkey crouching under a tall rock, with his eyes closed and his head bent, the jelly-fish was filled with pity, and stopped, saying, ‘Ah, poor fellow, no wonder you weep; a few days more, and they will come and kill you and give your liver to the queen to eat.’ 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 gay gay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 lively lively ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 10 crouching crouch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 under under ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 with with SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 jelly jelly NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 43 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 42 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 46 det _ _ 46 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 weep weep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ; ; PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl:unmarked _ _ 53 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 58 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 56 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 57 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 58 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 parataxis _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 conj _ _ 61 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 60 obj _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 conj _ _ 64 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 65 nmod:poss _ _ 65 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ _ 66 to to ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 69 to to PART TO _ 70 mark _ _ 70 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 68 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 72 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 58 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crouch** | gerund | the gay monkey *not said here* | | | a tall rock | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rock=Location | | 2 | **close** | participle | turtle's eyes | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **bend** | past | turtle's head | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fill** | past · passive | | the jelly fish | | the sight of the gay monkey | | with pity | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pity=Instrument | | 5 | **stop** | past | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **weep** | present | you | no wonder *not said here* | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme | | 8 | **come** | future | fishes *= fish* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **kill** | infinitive | fishes *= fish* *not said here* | you | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 10 | **give** | infinitive | fishes *= fish* *not said here* | your liver | the queen | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent liver=Theme to queen=Recipient | | 11 | **eat** | to-infinitive | fishes *= fish* *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **sight** | | | the gay monkey | | | | | nom sight «cognition 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/26/) - ↑ back to [The Monkey and the Jelly-fish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/)