Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 54
Immediately a fluttering sound was heard, and a magnificent Peacock dropped to the ground in front of him from the branch of a neighbouring tree.
Who acts: magnificent Peacock · What happens: flutter, hear, drop, neighbour · To what, where: fluttering sound, front
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magnificent Peacock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 3 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sound | amod |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | aux:pass |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dropped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dropped | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Peacock | det |
| 10 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Peacock | amod |
| 11 | Peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dropped | nsubj |
| 12 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dropped | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 front | case |
| 17 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dropped | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 front | nmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 branch | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 branch | det |
| 22 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dropped | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 25 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 tree | amod |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 branch | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | a fluttering sound | immediately property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | a magnificent Peacock | front of Boy | to the ground; from the branch of a neighbouring tree | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to ground=Source in front=Trajectory from branch=Destination | |||
| 4 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules |
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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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