More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 10

_), while it is not impossible he may have come across Elder's book, which was illustrated by Cruikshank.

Who acts: Browning, Cruikshank · What happens: not be, come, illustrate · To what, where: book

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Browning, Cruikshank), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 impossible	punct
2	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 _	punct
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 impossible	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 impossible	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 impossible	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 impossible	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 impossible	advmod
8	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 impossible	parataxis
13	across	across	ADP	_	16 book	case
14	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 book	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Elder	case
16	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 illustrated	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 illustrated	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 illustrated	aux:pass
20	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 book	acl:relcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 Cruikshank	case
22	Cruikshank	Cruikshank	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 illustrated	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present				impossible property	tree rules
2	come	may · perfect	Browning		Elder's book		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across book=Initial_Location
3	illustrate	past · passive	Cruikshank	Elder's book			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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