English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 15
So it went on, every bird taking away some knowledge of how to build nests, but, none of them waiting to the end.
Who acts: sparrow, bird, none · What happens: go on, take away, build, wait · To what, where: knowledge, nests
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 (sparrow, bird, none), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taking | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | nsubj |
| 8 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 taking | advmod |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 knowledge | det |
| 11 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | obj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 build | mark |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 build | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 build | mark |
| 15 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knowledge | acl |
| 16 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 build | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waiting | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 waiting | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 none | punct |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 23 waiting | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 none | nmod |
| 23 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 end | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 end | det |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waiting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | sparrow | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take away | gerund | every bird | some knowledge | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme | |||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | every bird not said here | nests | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | none | to the end | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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