English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 13
“I was that cooing dove that you coaxed from off the tree.”
Who acts: hush, you · What happens: coo, coax · To what, where: dove, tree
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hush, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cooing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 cooing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cooing | aux |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 cooing | mark |
| 5 | cooing | coo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cooing | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 coaxed | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 coaxed | nsubj |
| 9 | coaxed | coax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dove | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coaxed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cooing | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cooing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coo in a quote | past · progressive | hush | dove | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dove=Theme | ||||
| 2 | coax in a quote | past | you | dove | the tree | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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