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title: But at once it began to sputter and to hiss, and the Fawn who was te… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But at once it began to sputter and to hiss, and the Fawn who was tending it heard it cry, “Look out! look out! for this is your mother!” Who acts: meat, Fawn, this. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawn
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 45

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But at once it began to sputter and to hiss, and the Fawn who was tending it heard it cry, “Look out! look out! for this is your mother!”

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**Who acts:** meat, Fawn, this · **What happens:** begin, sputter, hiss, tend, hear, cry · **To what, where:** meat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meat, Fawn, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:27:46
# text = But at once it began to sputter and to hiss, and the Fawn who was tending it heard it cry, “Look out! look out! for this is your mother!”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sputter	sputter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	hiss	hiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	tending	tend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | meat |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sputter** | to-infinitive | meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hiss** | to-infinitive | meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tend** | past · progressive | the Fawn | meat |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | past | the Fawn | meat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **look out** *in a quote* | infinitive | meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **look out** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Fawn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  |  | for your mother; your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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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