English Fairy Tales, XXXVI. the Magpie's Nest., sentence 1

_Source_.--I have built up the “Magpie's Nest” from two nidification myths, as a German professor would call them, in the Rev. Mr. Swainson's _Folk-Lore of British Birds_, pp.

Who acts: German professor, Swainson · What happens: build up, call, page · To what, where: Source, two nidification myths, myths, pp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVI. 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 (German professor, Swainson), 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	_	2 Source	punct
2	Source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj:pass
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 built	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 built	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Nest	det
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Nest	punct
11	Magpie	Magpie	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Nest	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Magpie	case
13	Nest	Nest	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 built	conj
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Nest	punct
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 myths	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 myths	nummod
17	nidification	nidification	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 myths	compound
18	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 built	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 call	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 professor	det
22	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 professor	amod
23	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 call	aux
25	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 built	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 call	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 pp	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	43 pp	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Swainson	det
30	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Swainson	nmod:desc
31	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Swainson	nmod:desc
32	Swainson	Swainson	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 pp	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Swainson	case
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 Lore	punct
35	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Lore	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Folk	punct
37	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 pp	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Birds	case
39	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Birds	amod
40	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 Lore	nmod
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 Lore	punct
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 pp	punct
43	pp	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 call	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	build up	present · perfect · passive		Source	two nidification myths	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Extent from myth=Initial_State
2	call	would	a German professor	myths = myth	the Swainson Rev. Mr.'s pp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	page		the Swainson Rev. Mr.			nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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