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title: If there is any mistake in the order of neatness in the various bird… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If there is any mistake in the order of neatness in the various birds' nests, I must have learnt my lesson badly. Who acts: mistake, I. 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 4

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If there is any mistake in the order of neatness in the various birds' nests, I must have learnt my lesson badly.

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**Who acts:** mistake, I · **What happens:** be, learn, order · **To what, where:** lesson, neatness

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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 (mistake, I), 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:pg7439:86:4
# text = If there is any mistake in the order of neatness in the various birds' nests, I must have learnt my lesson badly.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	neatness	neatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any mistake in the order of neatness in the various birds's nests |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | must · perfect | I | my lesson |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |
| 3 | **order** |  |  | neatness |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication 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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