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title: _Source_.--I have built up the “Magpie's Nest” from two nidification… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Source_.--I have built up the “Magpie's Nest” from two nidification myths, as a German professor would call them, in the Rev. Mr. Swainson's _Folk-Lore of British Birds_, pp. Who acts: German professor, Swainson. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVI. the Magpie's Nest., with 
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXVI. the Magpie's Nest., sentence 1

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\_Source\_.--I have built up the “Magpie's Nest” from two nidification myths, as a German professor would call them, in the Rev. Mr. Swainson's \_Folk-Lore of British Birds\_, pp.

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**Who acts:** German professor, Swainson · **What happens:** build up, call, page · **To what, where:** Source, two nidification myths, myths, pp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (German professor, Swainson), 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:pg7439:86:1
# text = _Source_.--I have built up the “Magpie's Nest” from two nidification myths, as a German professor would call them, in the Rev. Mr. Swainson's _Folk-Lore of British Birds_, pp.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Magpie	Magpie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Nest	Nest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	nidification	nidification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	professor	professor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
31	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
32	Swainson	Swainson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build up** | present · perfect · passive |  | Source |  | two nidification myths |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Extent from myth=Initial\_State |
| 2 | **call** | would | a German professor | myths *= myth* |  | the Swainson  Rev.  Mr.'s pp |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **page** |  | the Swainson  Rev.  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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