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title: In a few moments the air was bright with numbers of fine Peacocks fl… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few moments the air was bright with numbers of fine Peacocks flying in from all directions. Who acts: air, fine Peacocks. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 61

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In a few moments the air was bright with numbers of fine Peacocks flying in from all directions.

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**Who acts:** air, fine Peacocks · **What happens:** be, fly in · **To what, where:** directions

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:13:61
# text = In a few moments the air was bright with numbers of fine Peacocks flying in from all directions.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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