English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 17
At last the magpie heard this just as she was putting a twig across.
Who acts: last magpie, magpie · What happens: hear, put · To what, where: this, twig · 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 (last magpie, magpie), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 magpie | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 magpie | det |
| 4 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 putting | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 putting | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 putting | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 putting | aux |
| 11 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 twig | det |
| 13 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 putting | obj |
| 14 | across | across | ADV | _ | 11 putting | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the last magpie | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | past · progressive | magpie | a twig | across property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent twig=Goal |
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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