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title: I have received instruction about the relative values of nests from… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have received instruction about the relative values of nests from a little friend of mine named Katie, who knows all about it. Who acts: I, Katie. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVI. the Magpie's Nest., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXVI. the Magpie's Nest., sentence 3

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I have received instruction about the relative values of nests from a little friend of mine named Katie, who knows all about it.

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**Who acts:** I, Katie · **What happens:** receive, name, know, value · **To what, where:** instruction, mine, nests

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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 (I, Katie), 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:pg7439:86:3
# text = I have received instruction about the relative values of nests from a little friend of mine named Katie, who knows all about it.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	relative	relative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	values	value	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	Katie	Katie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present · perfect | I | instruction |  |  |  | about the relative values of nests; from a little friend of mine | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme from friend=Source |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | mine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | present | Katie | instruction |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **value** |  |  | nests |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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