The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 13
On the top of the fir tree is a magpie’s nest, and in the nest are five eggs.
Who acts: nest · What happens: be · To what, where: nest, top, five eggs
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nest), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 top | det |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nest | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 top | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 nest | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 magpie | det |
| 10 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nest | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 magpie | case |
| 12 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eggs | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 nest | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nest | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 nest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nest | det |
| 17 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nest | conj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 eggs | cop |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 eggs | nummod |
| 20 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 eggs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a magpie's nest and the nest | the top of the fir tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a magpie's nest and the nest | five eggs | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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