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title: Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk and around him flew twen… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 38

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

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

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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 (you, herons), 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:pg7439:35:38
# text = Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk and around him flew twenty-four grey herons and above them flew seven cygnets.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Coo	coo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	goshawk	goshawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
14	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	herons	heron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	cygnets	cygnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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