The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 45

But at once it began to sputter and to hiss, and the Fawn who was tending it heard it cry, “Look out! look out! for this is your mother!”

Who acts: meat, Fawn, this · What happens: begin, sputter, hiss, tend, hear, cry · To what, where: meat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meat, Fawn, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 began	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 began	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sputter	mark
7	sputter	sputter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hiss	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hiss	mark
10	hiss	hiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sputter	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fawn	det
14	Fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 tending	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tending	aux
17	tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 Fawn	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tending	obj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	obj
21	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 heard	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Look	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Look	punct
24	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cry	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 Look	compound:prt
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 look	punct
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 heard	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 look	compound:prt
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 mother	case
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 mother	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 mother	cop
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mother	nmod:poss
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 mother	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	meat			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sputter	to-infinitive	meat not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hiss	to-infinitive	meat not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tend	past · progressive	the Fawn	meat		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	hear	past	the Fawn	meat		tree rules
6	cry speech: express	infinitive	meat not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look out in a quote	infinitive	meat not said here			vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	look out in a quote	infinitive	the Fawn not said here			vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
9	is in a quote	present	this		for your mother; your nmod:poss	tree rules

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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 45

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 45