--- title: With a mighty spring he grasped a creeper which was hanging above hi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: With a mighty spring he grasped a creeper which was hanging above him, and landed himself on the branch of a tree; feeling the breath of the puma on his feet as the animal bounded from is cover. Who acts: puma, creeper, feeling. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/39/) [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/) / [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/) / 39 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 39 With a mighty spring he grasped a creeper which was hanging above him, and landed himself on the branch of a tree; feeling the breath of the puma on his feet as the animal bounded from is cover. **Who acts:** puma, creeper, feeling · **What happens:** grasp, hang, land, feel, bound, be · **To what, where:** creeper, puma, branch, breath, feet, animal This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puma, creeper, feeling), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:36:39 # text = With a mighty spring he grasped a creeper which was hanging above him, and landed himself on the branch of a tree; feeling the breath of the puma on his feet as the animal bounded from is cover. 1 With with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grasped grasp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 creeper creeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 hanging hang VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 above above ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 landed land VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 csubj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 puma puma NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 34 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 37 bounded bound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 37 obl _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 cover cover NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grasp** | past | puma | a creeper | | | spring | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creeper=Stimulus | | 2 | **hang** | past · progressive | a creeper | | | | | above puma | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above he=Location | | 3 | **land** | past | puma *not said here* | puma | | the branch of a tree | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on branch=Destination | | 4 | **feel** | gerund | | the breath of the puma | | puma's feet | | as the animal | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent breath=Theme on foot=Location | | 5 | **bound** | participle | | the animal *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | feeling | cover | | | | | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/40/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/)