The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 73

And the poor magpie, in spite of his wisdom, was obliged to throw another of his little ones out of the nest; and this time he was not able to console himself with the thought that he had been much cleverer than other people.

Who acts: time, magpie · What happens: oblige, throw, not be, be, spite · To what, where: poor magpie, another, thought, wisdom

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 (time, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 obliged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 magpie	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magpie	amod
4	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 obliged	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spite	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 spite	case
7	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 magpie	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wisdom	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wisdom	nmod:poss
10	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spite	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 magpie	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 obliged	aux:pass
13	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 throw	mark
15	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 obliged	xcomp
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 throw	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 ones	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ones	nmod:poss
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ones	amod
20	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 another	nmod
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 nest	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 nest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nest	det
24	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ones	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 able	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 able	cc
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 able	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 able	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 able	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 able	advmod
32	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 obliged	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 console	mark
34	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 able	conj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	34 console	nmod:unmarked
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 thought	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 thought	det
38	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 able	obl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 cleverer	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 cleverer	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 cleverer	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 cleverer	cop
43	much	much	ADV	_	44 cleverer	advmod
44	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 thought	acl:relcl
45	than	than	ADP	_	47 people	case
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 people	amod
47	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 cleverer	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		the poor magpie and spite of magpie's wisdom		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	throw	to-infinitive		another		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme
3	not is	past	this time		with the thought; able property	tree rules
4	is	past · perfect	magpie	the thought not said here	than other people; clever property	tree rules
5	spite			magpie's wisdom		nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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