--- title: “Oh, oh!” said Coo-my-dove; “it's time that I was away,” and so he j… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, 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/pg7439/35/28/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Earl Mar's Daughter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/) / 28 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:35:28 # text = “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. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 oh oh INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Coo Coo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 17 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 sill sill NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 conj _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/29/) - ↑ back to [Earl Mar's Daughter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/)