English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 6

“Oh, that's how it's done,” said the thrush; and away it flew, and so that's how thrushes build their nests.

Who acts: that, thrush, sort, thrushes · What happens: be, do, say, fly, build · To what, where: sort, nests · 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 (that, thrush, sort, thrushes), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 how	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 how	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 how	cop
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 done	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj:pass
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thrush	det
14	thrush	thrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 flew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 away	cc
17	away	away	ADV	_	19 flew	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flew	nsubj
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 build	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 build	cc
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 build	mark
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 how	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 how	cop
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 build	advmod
26	thrushes	thrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 build	nsubj
27	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 flew	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 nests	nmod:poss
29	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 build	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that		how property	tree rules
2	do in a quote	present · passive		sort		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the thrush			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fly	past	sort		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	that		how property	tree rules
6	build	present	thrushes	birds's 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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