--- title: When it was quite dark and no sound was to be heard, the puma crept… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When it was quite dark and no sound was to be heard, the puma crept out to the sheep-fold, killed the sheep, and carried back a bowl full of its blood with which to sprinkle the monkey. Who acts: care, puma. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/37/57/) [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/pg3282/37/) / 57 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 57 When it was quite dark and no sound was to be heard, the puma crept out to the sheep-fold, killed the sheep, and carried back a bowl full of its blood with which to sprinkle the monkey. **Who acts:** care, puma · **What happens:** be, hear, creep out, kill, carry back, sprinkle · **To what, where:** sound, sheep fold, sheep, bowl, monkey 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 (care, puma), 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:pg3282:37:57 # text = When it was quite dark and no sound was to be heard, the puma crept out to the sheep-fold, killed the sheep, and carried back a bowl full of its blood with which to sprinkle the monkey. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ _ 8 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 puma puma NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 17 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 fold fold NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 sprinkle sprinkle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | care | | | | | dark *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | past · passive | | no sound | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **creep out** | past | the puma | | | the sheep fold | | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fold=Destination | | 4 | **kill** | past | the puma *not said here* | the sheep | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | | 5 | **carry back** | past | the puma *not said here* | a bowl | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme | | 6 | **sprinkle** | to-infinitive | the puma *not said here* | | the monkey | | | with care's blood | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent monkey=Destination with which=Theme | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/37/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/37/58/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/37/)