English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 8

“Now I know all about it,” says the blackbird, and off he flew; and that's how the blackbirds make their nests to this very day.

Who acts: blackbird, thrush, that, blackbirds · What happens: know, say, fly, be, make · To what, where: 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 (blackbird, thrush, that, blackbirds), 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	_	10 says	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 know	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	ccomp
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 it	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 blackbird	det
12	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 flew	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 how	cc
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 how	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 how	cop
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 make	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blackbirds	det
24	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 make	nsubj
25	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nests	nmod:poss
27	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 make	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 day	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 day	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 day	advmod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	the blackbird = blackbird		now	about mud	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	the blackbird				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly	past	thrush				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	that			how property	tree rules
5	make	present	the blackbirds	twigs's nests	day		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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