English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 38

Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk and around him flew twenty-four grey herons and above them flew seven cygnets.

Who acts: you, herons · What happens: coo, change, fly · To what, where: dove, goshawk, four grey herons, seven cygnets

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 (you, herons), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	2 Coo	advmod
2	Coo	coo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dove	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dove	nmod:poss
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dove	punct
6	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Coo	obj
7	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dove	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 goshawk	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 goshawk	det
10	goshawk	goshawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 changed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flew	cc
12	around	around	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	obl
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Coo	conj
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 four	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 twenty	punct
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 herons	nummod
18	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 herons	amod
19	herons	heron	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flew	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flew	cc
21	above	above	ADP	_	23 flew	mark
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flew	nsubj
23	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flew	conj
24	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 cygnets	nummod
25	cygnets	cygnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flew	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Coo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	coo	imperative	you not said here	my dove	suddenly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dove=Theme
2	change	participle		my dove not said here	into a goshawk result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into goshawk=Result
3	fly	past	you not said here	four grey herons	around Ostree	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent heron=Theme around he=Location
4	fly	past	herons = heron	seven cygnets		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cygnet=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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