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title: The monkey knew this, but trusted to his power of beguiling the turt… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The monkey knew this, but trusted to his power of beguiling the turtle when the time came, and mounted on his back with feelings of joy, which he was, however, careful to conceal. Who acts: monkey, power, time. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, with
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 35

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The monkey knew this, but trusted to his power of beguiling the turtle when the time came, and mounted on his back with feelings of joy, which he was, however, careful to conceal.

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**Who acts:** monkey, power, time · **What happens:** know, trust, beguile, come, mount, conceal · **To what, where:** this, power, turtle, 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 (monkey, power, time), 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:pg641:32:35
# text = The monkey knew this, but trusted to his power of beguiling the turtle when the time came, and mounted on his back with feelings of joy, which he was, however, careful to conceal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	beguiling	beguile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	however	however	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the monkey | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **trust** | participle | the monkey *not said here* |  | turtle's power |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to power=Recipient |
| 3 | **beguile** | gerund | turtle's power *not said here* | the turtle |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus turtle=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** | past | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  | turtle's back |  | with feelings of joy | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with feeling=Instrument |
| 6 | **conceal** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: 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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