English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 7
Then the magpie took some twigs and arranged them round in the mud.
Who acts: magpie · What happens: take, arrange · To what, where: twigs, mud
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magpie | det |
| 3 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 twigs | det |
| 6 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 arranged | cc |
| 8 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 arranged | obj |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 arranged | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mud | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mud | det |
| 13 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arranged | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the magpie | some twigs | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=Theme | |||
| 2 | arrange | past | the magpie not said here | twigs = twig | the mud | round property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in mud=Destination |
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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