The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 57

When it was quite dark and no sound was to be heard, the puma crept out to the sheep-fold, killed the sheep, and carried back a bowl full of its blood with which to sprinkle the monkey.

Who acts: care, puma · What happens: be, hear, creep out, kill, carry back, sprinkle · To what, where: sound, sheep fold, sheep, bowl, monkey

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, puma), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 dark	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dark	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux:pass
10	to	to	PART	_	12 heard	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 heard	aux:pass
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dark	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crept	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 puma	det
15	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crept	nsubj
16	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	parataxis
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 crept	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	22 fold	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fold	det
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fold	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 sheep	punct
22	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crept	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 killed	punct
24	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 crept	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sheep	det
26	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 killed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carried	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 carried	cc
29	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 crept	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 carried	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bowl	det
32	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carried	obj
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bowl	amod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 blood	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 blood	nmod:poss
36	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 full	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 sprinkle	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 sprinkle	mark
40	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 blood	acl:relcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 monkey	det
42	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sprinkle	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	care				dark property	tree rules
2	hear	past · passive		no sound				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	creep out	past	the puma			the sheep fold	out property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fold=Destination
4	kill	past	the puma not said here	the sheep				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
5	carry back	past	the puma not said here	a bowl				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme
6	sprinkle	to-infinitive	the puma not said here		the monkey		with care's blood	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent monkey=Destination with which=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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