English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 28

“Oh, oh!” said Coo-my-dove; “it's time that I was away,” and so he jumped upon the window-sill and in a moment was flying away.

Who acts: Coo, dove, time · What happens: say, be, jump, fly away · To what, where: dove, time, window sill · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Coo, dove, time), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 Oh	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Coo	Coo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Coo	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dove	nmod:poss
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 my	punct
12	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 time	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 time	cop
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 away	nsubj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 away	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 away	cop
21	away	away	ADV	_	17 time	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 away	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 jumped	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 jumped	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 jumped	nsubj
27	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 sill	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sill	det
30	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sill	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 window	punct
32	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 jumped	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 flying	cc
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 moment	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 moment	det
36	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 flying	obl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 flying	aux
38	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 jumped	conj
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 flying	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Coo	my dove				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dove=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	dove	time				tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	time				away property	tree rules
4	jump	past	Coo		the window sill			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sill=Trajectory
5	fly away	past · progressive	Coo not said here			moment	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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