--- title: ‘I cover my head with my wings,’ and as he spoke he lifted his large… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I cover my head with my wings,’ and as he spoke he lifted his large wings and spread them completely over his head. Who acts: I, heron. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/67/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/) / 67 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 67 ‘I cover my head with my wings,’ and as he spoke he lifted his large wings and spread them completely over his head. **Who acts:** I, heron · **What happens:** cover, speak, lift, spread · **To what, where:** head, large wings, wings · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heron), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:34:67 # text = ‘I cover my head with my wings,’ and as he spoke he lifted his large wings and spread them completely over his head. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cover cover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 completely completely ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 over over 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 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present | I | my head | | | | with my wings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with wing=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | heron | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lift** | past | heron | heron's large wings | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | | 4 | **spread** | past | heron *not said here* | wings *= wing* | | heron's head | | completely *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over head=Destination | 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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/68/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/)