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title: A flutter ran through the feathers as the drops of water fell on the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 77

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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!

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:19:77
# text = 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!
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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