English Fairy Tales, XXXVI. the Magpie's Nest., sentence 5

_Remarks_.--English popular tradition is curiously at variance about the magpie's nidificatory powers, for another legend given by Mr. Swainson represents her as refusing to be instructed by the birds and that is why she does _not_ make a good nest.

Who acts: English popular tradition, variance, birds, that, Swainson · What happens: be, give, represent, refuse, not instruct, do · To what, where: variance, legend, Swainson, good nest

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 (English popular tradition, variance, birds, that), 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 Remarks	punct
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 represents	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	11 variance	punct
5	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tradition	amod
6	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tradition	amod
7	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 variance	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 variance	cop
9	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	11 variance	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 variance	case
11	variance	variance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 represents	nsubj
12	about	about	ADP	_	17 powers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 magpie	det
14	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 powers	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 magpie	case
16	nidificatory	nidificatory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 powers	amod
17	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 variance	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 legend	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 legend	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 legend	det
21	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 variance	conj
22	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 legend	acl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 Swainson	case
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Swainson	nmod:desc
25	Swainson	Swainson	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 given	obl
26	represents	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Remarks	acl:relcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 represents	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 refusing	mark
29	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 represents	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	32 instructed	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 instructed	aux:pass
32	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 refusing	xcomp
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 birds	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 birds	det
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 instructed	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 why	cc
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 why	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 why	cop
39	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 instructed	conj
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 does	nsubj
41	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 why	ccomp
42	_	_	PUNCT	_	45 make	punct
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 make	advmod
44	_	_	PART	_	45 make	mark
45	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 does	advcl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 nest	det
47	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 nest	amod
48	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 make	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	English popular tradition		variance and another legend	about the magpie's nidificatory powers; curiously property	tree rules
2	give	participle		another legend not said here		by Swainson Mr.	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	represent	present	variance and another legend	Swainson			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
4	refuse	gerund	variance and another legend not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not instruct speech: other	to-infinitive · passive	the birds				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	that			why property	tree rules
7	do	present	Swainson				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not make	infinitive	Swainson not said here	a good nest			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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