The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 1

Just then came a new, strange, jerky fluttering of wings far softer than the grouse's, and George and Jane cried out together: "Oh, _do_ mind your wings in the fires!"

Who acts: new strange jerky fluttering, George, wings · What happens: come, cry out, mind, flutter · To what, where: wings, fires · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new strange jerky fluttering, George, 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	Just	just	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fluttering	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fluttering	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 new	punct
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fluttering	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strange	punct
9	jerky	jerky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fluttering	amod
10	fluttering	fluttering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wings	case
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fluttering	nmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 softer	advmod
14	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 wings	amod
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 grouse	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grouse	det
17	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 softer	obl
18	's	's	PART	_	17 grouse	case
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cried	cc
21	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 cried	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Jane	cc
23	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 George	conj
24	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 cried	compound:prt
26	together	together	ADV	_	24 cried	advmod
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 mind	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
29	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	32 do	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Oh	punct
31	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 do	nsubj
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 mind	aux
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 do	discourse
34	mind	mind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wings	nmod:poss
36	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 mind	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 fires	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fires	det
39	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 mind	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 mind	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a new strange jerky fluttering of wings			then		tree rules
2	cry out speech: express	past	George and Jane				together property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mind in a quote	present · do-support		your wings	the fires			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme
4	flutter		wings					nom fluttering «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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