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title: This the Prince did not find quite so easy, but the little monkey wa… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 39

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This the Prince did not find quite so easy, but the little monkey waited for him and showed him the easiest places, until presently the wood grew thinner and they came out into a little clear grassy space at the foot of a mountain, in the midst of which stood a single rock, about ten feet high.

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**Who acts:** Prince, little monkey, wood, trees, midst · **What happens:** not find, wait, show, grow, come out, stand · **To what, where:** easiest places, monkey, little clear grassy space, single rock

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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 (Prince, little monkey, wood, trees), 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:pg7277:15:39
# text = This the Prince did not find quite so easy, but the little monkey waited for him and showed him the easiest places, until presently the wood grew thinner and they came out into a little clear grassy space at the foot of a mountain, in the midst of which stood a single rock, about ten feet high.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
30	thinner	thin	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
53	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	about	about	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	60	nummod	_	_
60	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl:unmarked	_	_
61	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** | past · do-support | the Prince |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | past | the little monkey |  |  |  |  | for Prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | past | the little monkey *not said here* | the easiest places | monkey |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Topic |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the wood |  |  |  |  | presently, thin *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come out** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  | a little clear grassy space at the foot of a mountain |  | in the midst; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **stand** | past | the midst | a single rock |  |  |  | high *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |

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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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