The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 61

Not knowing what to do the poor magpie had to agree, and flying back, with a heavy heart, he threw one of his young ones out of the nest.

Who acts: magpie, poor magpie · What happens: not know, do, have, agree, fly back, throw · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie, poor magpie), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 threw	advcl
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knowing	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magpie	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 magpie	amod
8	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 agree	mark
11	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flying	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flying	cc
14	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knowing	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 flying	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heart	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 heart	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 heart	det
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 heart	amod
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	nsubj
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 threw	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 ones	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ones	nmod:poss
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ones	amod
28	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 nest	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 nest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 nest	det
32	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ones	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	magpie not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive	magpie not said here			tree rules
3	have	past	the poor magpie			tree rules
4	agree speech: agree	to-infinitive	the poor magpie not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fly back	gerund	magpie not said here		with a heavy heart	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	throw	past	magpie	one of magpie's young ones out the nest		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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