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title: “I was that cooing dove that you coaxed from off the tree.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I was that cooing dove that you coaxed from off the tree.” Who acts: hush, you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 13

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“I was that cooing dove that you coaxed from off the tree.”

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**Who acts:** hush, you · **What happens:** coo, coax · **To what, where:** dove, tree

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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.

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**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:pg7439:35:13
# text = “I was that cooing dove that you coaxed from off the tree.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cooing	coo	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	coaxed	coax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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