English Fairy Tales, XXXVI. the Magpie's Nest., sentence 4

If there is any mistake in the order of neatness in the various birds' nests, I must have learnt my lesson badly.

Who acts: mistake, I · What happens: be, learn, order · To what, where: lesson, neatness

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 (mistake, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 is	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 learnt	advcl
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 mistake	det
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 order	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 order	det
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mistake	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 neatness	case
10	neatness	neatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 order	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	16 nests	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birds	det
13	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 birds	amod
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 nests	nmod:poss
15	'	's	PART	_	14 birds	case
16	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mistake	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 learnt	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 learnt	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 learnt	aux
21	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 lesson	nmod:poss
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 learnt	obj
24	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 learnt	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 learnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	present	any mistake in the order of neatness in the various birds's nests		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	must · perfect	I	my lesson		badly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
3	order			neatness			nom order «communication 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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