The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 21

But the magpie in the tree, who, like all the rest of his family, was not happy unless he could be for ever chattering, began to repeat the message the princess had taught him; and as soon as he understood it, Prince Ratibor’s heart was filled with joy.

Who acts: tree, magpie, message · What happens: not be, chatter, begin, repeat, teach, understand · To what, where: message, princess, magpie, heart

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, magpie, message), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magpie	det
3	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 began	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 magpie	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 happy	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 happy	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 who	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 rest	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 rest	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 happy	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 family	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 family	nmod:poss
16	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rest	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rest	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 happy	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 happy	advmod
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	parataxis
21	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	27 chattering	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 chattering	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 chattering	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 chattering	aux
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 chattering	mark
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 chattering	advmod
27	chattering	chatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 happy	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 magpie	punct
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	to	to	PART	_	31 repeat	mark
31	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 message	det
33	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 repeat	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 princess	det
35	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 taught	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 taught	aux
37	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 message	acl:relcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 taught	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 filled	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 filled	cc
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 soon	advmod
42	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	53 filled	advmod
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 understood	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 understood	nsubj
45	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 soon	advcl
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 understood	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 filled	punct
48	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Ratibor	nmod:desc
49	Ratibor	Ratibor	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 heart	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 Ratibor	case
51	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 filled	nsubj:pass
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 filled	aux:pass
53	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 began	conj
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 joy	case
55	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 filled	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the tree				like all rest of magpie's family; happy property	tree rules
2	chatter a condition, not said to happen	could · progressive	magpie			ever		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	the magpie in the tree					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	repeat	to-infinitive	the magpie in the tree not said here	the message				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Eventuality
5	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive	the message not said here	the princess	magpie			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
6	understand	past	magpie	message				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	fill	past · passive		Ratibor Prince's heart			with joy; soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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