---
title: Leaving her cart behind some trees, Kisa crept gently up to the open… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Leaving her cart behind some trees, Kisa crept gently up to the open door, and, crouching down, listened to what the giant was telling his wife, who was at supper with him. Who acts: Kisa, giant, wife. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its depen
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/35/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/) / 35

# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 35

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Leaving her cart behind some trees, Kisa crept gently up to the open door, and, crouching down, listened to what the giant was telling his wife, who was at supper with him.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Kisa, giant, wife · **What happens:** leave, creep, crouch down, listen, tell, be · **To what, where:** cart, trees, open door, wife, supper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kisa, giant, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg3282:28:35
# text = Leaving her cart behind some trees, Kisa crept gently up to the open door, and, crouching down, listened to what the giant was telling his wife, who was at supper with him.
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	crouching	crouch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | Kisa *not said here* | Kisa's cart |  | some trees |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cart=Theme behind tree=Location |
| 2 | **creep** | past | Kisa |  |  | the open door |  | gently *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up door=Trajectory |
| 3 | **crouch down** | gerund | Kisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **listen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | the giant |  | giant's wife and supper |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | past | giant's wife and supper |  |  | supper |  | with giant | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/34/)
- next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/36/)
- ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/)