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title: The Angel, while he was speaking thus, stretched out his pinions to… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: The Angel, while he was speaking thus, stretched out his pinions to fly back to the Empyreum; and the flutter of his wings was like the rushing of a cataract. Who acts: Angel, flutter, wings. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab., with it
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 27

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The Angel, while he was speaking thus, stretched out his pinions to fly back to the Empyreum; and the flutter of his wings was like the rushing of a cataract.

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**Who acts:** Angel, flutter, wings · **What happens:** speak, stretch out, fly back, rush, flutter · **To what, where:** pinions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Angel, flutter, wings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:20:27
# text = The Angel, while he was speaking thus, stretched out his pinions to fly back to the Empyreum; and the flutter of his wings was like the rushing of a cataract.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Angel	Angel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pinions	pinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Empyreum	Empyreum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cataract	cataract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the Angel |  |  |  |  | angel *nsubj*; thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stretch out** | participle | the Angel *not said here* | angel's pinions |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pinion=Patient |
| 3 | **fly back** | to-infinitive | the Angel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Empyreum *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to empyreum=Result |
| 4 | **rush** | past · progressive | the flutter of angel's wings |  |  |  |  | of a cataract | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of cataract=Trajectory |
| 5 | **flutter** |  | angel's wings |  |  |  |  |  | nom flutter «act intransitive»: of=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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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