Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 61
In a few moments the air was bright with numbers of fine Peacocks flying in from all directions.
Who acts: air, fine Peacocks · What happens: be, fly in · To what, where: directions
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 (air, fine Peacocks), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 moments | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moments | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moments | amod |
| 4 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bright | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bright | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bright | cop |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 numbers | case |
| 10 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bright | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Peacocks | case |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Peacocks | amod |
| 13 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 numbers | nmod |
| 14 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Peacocks | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 flying | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 directions | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 directions | det |
| 18 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bright | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the air | moment | with numbers of fine Peacocks; bright property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly in | gerund | fine Peacocks not said here | all directions | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from direction=Trajectory |
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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