English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 3

For the magpie is the cleverest bird of all at building nests.

What happens: be · To what, where: cleverest bird

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: 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 magpie	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magpie	det
3	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bird	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 nests	case
11	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nests	compound
12	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 all	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the cleverest bird				for the magpie; of all	tree rules

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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