--- title: Then the Pigeon flew away, saying: "I can't live with this creature… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Pigeon flew away, saying: "I can't live with this creature any longer." Who acts: Pigeon. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, 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/pg7128/29/104/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/) / 104 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 104 Then the Pigeon flew away, saying: "I can't live with this creature any longer." **Who acts:** Pigeon · **What happens:** fly away, say, not live · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pigeon), 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:pg7128:29:104 # text = Then the Pigeon flew away, saying: "I can't live with this creature any longer." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Pigeon Pigeon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 any any ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly away** | past | the Pigeon | | | | then | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Pigeon *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **live** *in a quote* | can | the Pigeon *= pigeon* | | | | | with this creature; long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with creature=Location | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/105/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/)