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title: As it was, he scrambled out, shaking with terror, and found the puma… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As it was, he scrambled out, shaking with terror, and found the puma waiting for him. Who acts: current, stag, puma. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 94

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As it was, he scrambled out, shaking with terror, and found the puma waiting for him.

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**Who acts:** current, stag, puma · **What happens:** be, scramble out, shake, find, wait · **To what, where:** puma

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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 (current, stag, puma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3282:36:94
# text = As it was, he scrambled out, shaking with terror, and found the puma waiting for him.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | current |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **scramble out** | past | stag |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shake** | gerund | stag *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with terror | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with terror=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **find** | past | stag *not said here* | the puma |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puma=Topic |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund | the puma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for stag | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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