The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 77

A flutter ran through the feathers as the drops of water fell on them, and the eagle lifted his beak from the ground and said: “Oh, how long I must have slept!

Who acts: flutter, drops, eagle · What happens: run, fall, lift, say, sleep · To what, where: feathers, beak, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flutter, drops, eagle), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flutter	det
2	flutter	flutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 feathers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feathers	det
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 fell	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drops	det
9	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fell	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drops	nmod
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lifted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lifted	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eagle	det
18	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lifted	nsubj
19	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 beak	nmod:poss
21	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lifted	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lifted	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lifted	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 slept	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 slept	punct
29	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	36 slept	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 slept	punct
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 long	advmod
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 slept	advmod
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 slept	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 slept	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 slept	aux
36	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 said	ccomp
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	a flutter		the feathers		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through feather=Trajectory
2	fall	past	the drops of water			on water	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on they=Location
3	lift	past	the eagle	flutter's beak	the ground		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beak=Theme from ground=Destination
4	say speech: express	past	the eagle not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sleep in a quote	must · perfect	the eagle = eagle			long property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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