---
title: The boys pricked up their ears; and bright-faced Manuelito[109] turn… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The boys pricked up their ears; and bright-faced Manuelito[109] turned to his white-headed grandfather, and said: Who acts: boys, faced Manuelito. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse, with its dependency tr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [Doctor Field-mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/) / 5

# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 5

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The boys pricked up their ears; and bright-faced Manuelito\[109\] turned to his white-headed grandfather, and said:

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** boys, faced Manuelito · **What happens:** prick up, turn, head, say · **To what, where:** ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, faced Manuelito), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:34:5
# text = The boys pricked up their ears; and bright-faced Manuelito[109] turned to his white-headed grandfather, and said:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pricked	prick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Manuelito	Manuelito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	109	109	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prick up** | past | the boys | boys's ears |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** | past | faced Manuelito |  |  |  |  | to Manuelito's headed grandfather *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to grandfather=Result |
| 3 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/4/)
- next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/6/)
- ↑ back to [Doctor Field-mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/)