English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 5
First of all she took some mud and made a sort of round cake with it.
Who acts: magpie · What happens: take, make, sort · To what, where: mud, sort, round cake
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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 First | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 mud | det |
| 7 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sort | det |
| 11 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cake | case |
| 13 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cake | amod |
| 14 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sort | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | magpie | some mud | first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | magpie not said here | a sort of round cake | with cake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sort=Product | |||
| 3 | sort | round cake | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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