English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 14

“That suits me,” cried the starling, and off it flew; and very comfortable nests have starlings.

Who acts: That, starling, comfortable nests · What happens: suit, cry, fly, have · To what, where: starling, starlings · 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, starling, comfortable nests), 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	_	3 suits	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 suits	nsubj
3	suits	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suits	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 suits	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 suits	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suits	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 starling	det
9	starling	starling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flew	cc
12	off	off	ADP	_	14 flew	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 comfortable	advmod
18	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nests	amod
19	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 suits	parataxis
21	starlings	starling	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	suit in a quote	present	That	the starling = starling	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the starling		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly	past	starling		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	comfortable nests	starlings	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starling=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: «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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