English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 4

So she put all the birds round her and began to show them how to do it.

Who acts: magpie · What happens: put, begin, show, do · To what, where: birds, snuff · 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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 birds	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 show	mark
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 show	obj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 do	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 show	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	put	past	magpie		all birds	round her = she	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bird=Goal
2	begin	past	magpie not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	show	to-infinitive	magpie 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	do	to-infinitive		snuff			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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