English Fairy Tales, XXXVI. the Magpie's Nest., sentence 3

I have received instruction about the relative values of nests from a little friend of mine named Katie, who knows all about it.

Who acts: I, Katie · What happens: receive, name, know, value · To what, where: instruction, mine, nests

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 (I, Katie), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 received	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 received	aux
3	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 values	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 values	det
7	relative	relative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 values	amod
8	values	value	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 received	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 nests	case
10	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 values	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 friend	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 friend	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 friend	amod
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 mine	case
16	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 friend	nmod
17	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 mine	acl
18	Katie	Katie	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 named	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knows	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 knows	nsubj
21	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Katie	acl:relcl
22	all	all	ADV	_	24 it	advmod
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knows	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	present · perfect	I	instruction	about the relative values of nests; from a little friend of mine	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme from friend=Source
2	name	participle		mine not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	Katie	instruction		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	value			nests		nom value «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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