The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 117

And the next moment there was a soft whispering rustle of wings overhead, and then, fluttering slowly, softly down, came hundreds and thousands of little white fluffy feathers.

Who acts: wings · What happens: flutter, come, rustle · To what, where: hundreds

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 was	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fluttering	aux
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rustle	det
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rustle	amod
9	whispering	whispering	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rustle	compound
10	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wings	case
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rustle	nmod
13	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	6 was	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fluttering	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fluttering	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 fluttering	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fluttering	punct
18	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 came	advcl
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	18 fluttering	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 down	punct
21	softly	softly	ADV	_	22 down	advmod
22	down	down	ADV	_	18 fluttering	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 down	punct
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 came	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thousands	cc
27	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hundreds	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 feathers	case
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 feathers	amod
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 feathers	amod
31	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 feathers	amod
32	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 thousands	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	flutter	past · progressive			then	down, slowly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past		hundreds and thousands of little white fluffy feathers			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hundred=Theme
3	rustle		wings				nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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