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title: Prince Mannikin agreed willingly, and then the little monkey sprang… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Mannikin agreed willingly, and then the little monkey sprang from his shoulder to the nearest tree, and began to run through the wood from branch to branch, crying, ‘Follow me.’ Who acts: Mannikin, little monkey. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 38

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Prince Mannikin agreed willingly, and then the little monkey sprang from his shoulder to the nearest tree, and began to run through the wood from branch to branch, crying, ‘Follow me.’

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**Who acts:** Mannikin, little monkey · **What happens:** agree, spring, begin, run, cry, follow · **To what, where:** little monkey, shoulder, wood, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Mannikin, little monkey), 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:pg7277:15:38
# text = Prince Mannikin agreed willingly, and then the little monkey sprang from his shoulder to the nearest tree, and began to run through the wood from branch to branch, crying, ‘Follow me.’
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	sprang	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Mannikin  Prince | the little monkey |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spring** | gerund | the little monkey *not said here* |  |  | monkey's shoulder |  | to the nearest tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tree=Destination |
| 3 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **run** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the wood |  | from branch; to branch | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through wood=Initial\_Location from branch=Trajectory to branch=Destination |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **follow** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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