The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 59

When the puma saw what had happened, he turned in a great hurry to leave the house, but before he could do so, he saw the shepherd coming, and hastily lay down again.

Who acts: puma, shepherd · What happens: see, happen, turn, leave, do, come · To what, where: great hurry, house, shepherd · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (puma, shepherd), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 puma	det
3	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 happened	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 happened	aux
7	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 saw	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 hurry	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hurry	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hurry	amod
14	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 leave	mark
16	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 turned	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leave	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 saw	cc
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 do	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 saw	advcl
25	so	so	ADV	_	24 do	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shepherd	det
30	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saw	obj
31	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 shepherd	acl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lay	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lay	cc
34	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	35 lay	advmod
35	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 saw	conj
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 lay	compound:prt
37	again	again	ADV	_	35 lay	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the puma					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	past · perfect						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	past	puma		a great hurry			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory
4	leave	to-infinitive	puma not said here	the house				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
5	do	could	puma					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	past	puma	the shepherd				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=Stimulus
7	come	gerund	the shepherd not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	lay down	infinitive	puma not said here			again	hastily property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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