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title: Well, then Madge Magpie took some feathers and stuff and lined the n… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, then Madge Magpie took some feathers and stuff and lined the nest very comfortably with it. Who acts: Madge. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Magpie's Nest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 13

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Well, then Madge Magpie took some feathers and stuff and lined the nest very comfortably with it.

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**Who acts:** Madge · **What happens:** take, line · **To what, where:** feathers, nest

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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 (Madge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:42:13
# text = Well, then Madge Magpie took some feathers and stuff and lined the nest very comfortably with it.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	Madge	Madge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Magpie	Magpie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lined	line	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Madge | some feathers and stuff |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme |
| 2 | **line** | past | Madge *not said here* | the nest |  |  |  | with stuff; comfortably *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent nest=Destination with it=Theme |

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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.

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**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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