English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 13
Well, then Madge Magpie took some feathers and stuff and lined the nest very comfortably with it.
Who acts: Madge · What happens: take, line · To what, where: feathers, nest
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 (Madge), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 Madge | advmod |
| 4 | Madge | Madge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 5 | Magpie | Magpie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Madge | flat |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 feathers | det |
| 8 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stuff | cc |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feathers | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lined | cc |
| 12 | lined | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nest | det |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lined | obj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 comfortably | advmod |
| 16 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 12 lined | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lined | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Madge | some feathers and stuff | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | ||||
| 2 | line | past | Madge not said here | the nest | with stuff; comfortably property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent nest=Destination with it=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: «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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