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title: The Monkey, however, was a good deal too clever to be caught in a si… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Monkey, however, was a good deal too clever to be caught in a simple trap like this. Who acts: Monkey. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 43

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The Monkey, however, was a good deal too clever to be caught in a simple trap like this.

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**Who acts:** Monkey · **What happens:** be, catch · **To what, where:** good deal, simple trap

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:21:43
# text = The Monkey, however, was a good deal too clever to be caught in a simple trap like this.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Monkey | a good deal |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive · passive | the Monkey *not said here* |  |  | a simple trap like this |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |

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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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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