English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 2

All the birds of the air came to the magpie and asked her to teach them how to build nests.

Who acts: birds · What happens: come, ask, teach, build · To what, where: magpie, birds, 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 (birds), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 birds	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 magpie	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 magpie	det
10	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asked	cc
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 teach	mark
15	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 teach	iobj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 build	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 build	mark
19	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 teach	xcomp
20	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 build	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	all birds of the air			to the magpie	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to magpie=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	all birds of the air not said here		magpie		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	teach speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	all birds of the air not said here		birds = bird		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	build	to-infinitive	all birds of the air not said here	nests			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset 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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