More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 11
The Grimms give the legend in their _Deutsche Sagen_ (ed.
Who acts: Grimms · What happens: give · To what, where: legend, Deutsche Sagen
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 (Grimms), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Grimms | det |
| 2 | Grimms | grimm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 legend | det |
| 5 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Sagen | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Sagen | nmod:poss |
| 8 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Deutsche | compound |
| 9 | Deutsche | Deutsche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sagen | compound |
| 10 | Sagen | Sagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sagen | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 ed | punct |
| 13 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sagen | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the Grimms | the legend | Grimms's Deutsche Sagen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Theme |
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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