--- title: At last, and at last, the magpie looked up and saw nobody near her b… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At last, and at last, the magpie looked up and saw nobody near her but the silly turtle-dove, and then she got rare angry and flew away and refused to tell the birds how to build nests again. Who acts: magpie. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:42:22 # text = At last, and at last, the magpie looked up and saw nobody near her but the silly turtle-dove, and then she got rare angry and flew away and refused to tell the birds how to build nests again. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 magpie magpie NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 obj _ _ 15 near near ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 28 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 42 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 43 again again ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look up** | past | the magpie | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | the magpie *not said here* | nobody | | | | near magpie | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus | | 3 | **get** | past | magpie | | | | then | angry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **fly away** | past | magpie *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **refuse** | past | magpie *not said here* | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | magpie *not said here* | | the birds | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **build** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | nests | | | again | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/42/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/42/23/) - ↑ back to [The Magpie's Nest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/42/)