English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 10
“Oh that's quite obvious,” said the wise owl, and away it flew; and owls have never made better nests since.
Who acts: that, wise owl, owl · What happens: be, say, fly, not make · To what, where: owls · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Magpie's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, wise owl, owl), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 obvious | discourse |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 obvious | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 obvious | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 obvious | advmod |
| 6 | obvious | obvious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 obvious | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 obvious | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 owl | det |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 owl | amod |
| 12 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flew | cc |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 flew | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flew | nsubj |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 20 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 made | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 made | advmod |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 nests | amod |
| 25 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | since | since | ADV | _ | 23 made | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | obvious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wise owl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | owl | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not make | present · perfect · passive | owls | since property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product |
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: «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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