--- title: Instantly the broad-horned, mild-eyed creature which has played the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: Instantly the broad-horned, mild-eyed creature which has played the part of Brown Bossy becomes a huge bear, grim and terrible; instantly all the milkers are turned to growling beasts; instantly the bright-eyed yearlings resume their proper forms and become fierce wolves snapping and snarling and ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/30/65/) [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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [A Dreadful Vengeance](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/30/) / 65 # The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 65 Instantly the broad-horned, mild-eyed creature which has played the part of Brown Bossy becomes a huge bear, grim and terrible; instantly all the milkers are turned to growling beasts; instantly the bright-eyed yearlings resume their proper forms and become fierce wolves snapping and snarling and eager for blood. **Who acts:** horned eyed creature, eyed yearlings, fierce wolves, yearlings · **What happens:** play, become, turn, growl, resume, snap · **To what, where:** horned eyed creature, huge bear, milkers, beasts, proper forms, fierce wolves This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horned eyed creature, eyed yearlings, fierce wolves, yearlings), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:30:65 # text = Instantly the broad-horned, mild-eyed creature which has played the part of Brown Bossy becomes a huge bear, grim and terrible; instantly all the milkers are turned to growling beasts; instantly the bright-eyed yearlings resume their proper forms and become fierce wolves snapping and snarling and eager for blood. 1 Instantly instantly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 3 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 horned horned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 eyed eyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 Brown Brown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Bossy Bossy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 grim grim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 milkers milker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 growling growl VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 obl _ _ 36 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 40 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 eyed eyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 yearlings yearling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 resume resume VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 45 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 50 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 xcomp _ _ 52 snapping snap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 51 acl _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 snarling snarl VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 52 conj _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 56 eager eager ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 conj _ _ 57 for for ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present · perfect · passive | | the horned eyed creature | | | | the part of Brown Bossy *obj* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary part=Theme | | 2 | **become** | present | the horned eyed creature | a huge bear | | | | instantly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **turn** | present · passive | | all milkers | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **growl** | gerund | | beasts | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Topic | | 5 | **resume** | present | the eyed yearlings | yearlings's proper forms | | | | instantly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality | | 6 | **become** | present | the eyed yearlings *not said here* | fierce wolves | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **snap** | gerund | fierce wolves *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **snarl** | gerund | fierce wolves *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **form** | | yearlings *= yearling* | | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/30/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/30/66/) - ↑ back to [A Dreadful Vengeance](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/30/)