--- title: When you bury a treasure, you scatter over it blood drops of a newly… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When you bury a treasure, you scatter over it blood drops of a newly slain kid or lamb, or, better still, bury the animal with the treasure, and a Brownie will watch over it for you, and frighten everybody else away. Who acts: you, Brownie. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/44/9/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Cauld Lad of Hilton](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/44/) / 9 # English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 9 When you bury a treasure, you scatter over it blood drops of a newly slain kid or lamb, or, better still, bury the animal with the treasure, and a Brownie will watch over it for you, and frighten everybody else away. **Who acts:** you, Brownie · **What happens:** bury, scatter, watch, frighten away · **To what, where:** treasure, blood drops, animal, everybody This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Brownie), 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:pg7439:44:9 # text = When you bury a treasure, you scatter over it blood drops of a newly slain kid or lamb, or, better still, bury the animal with the treasure, and a Brownie will watch over it for you, and frighten everybody else away. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bury bury VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 scatter scatter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 newly newly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 slain slain NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 lamb lamb NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Brownie Brownie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 38 over over ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 frighten frighten VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 45 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 44 obj _ _ 46 else else ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 away away ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | present | you | a treasure | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | | 2 | **scatter** | present | you | | | blood drops of a slain kid or lamb | still | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over drop=Destination | | 3 | **bury** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the animal | | | | with the treasure | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 4 | **watch** | future | a Brownie | | | treasure | | for you | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location for you=Theme | | 5 | **frighten away** | infinitive | | everybody | | | | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everybody=Experiencer | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/44/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/44/10/) - ↑ back to [The Cauld Lad of Hilton](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/44/)