More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 12
1816, 330-33), and in its native land it has given rise to an elaborate poem _à la_ Scheffel by Julius Wolff, which has in its turn been the occasion of an opera by Victor Nessler.
Who acts: Scheffel Wolff, turn · What happens: give, have, be · To what, where: ed, native land, occasion
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 (Scheffel Wolff, turn), 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 | 1816 | 1816 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 330-33 | punct |
| 3 | 330-33 | 330-33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 1816 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 330-33 | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 given | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 land | nmod:poss |
| 9 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 land | amod |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 1816 | parataxis |
| 14 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 _ | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 poem | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 poem | det |
| 17 | elaborate | elaborate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 poem | amod |
| 18 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rise | nmod |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 20 | à | à | ADP | _ | 21 la | case |
| 21 | la | la | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 _ | nmod |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 Wolff | punct |
| 23 | Scheffel | Scheffel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Wolff | compound |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Julius | case |
| 25 | Julius | Julius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Scheffel | nmod |
| 26 | Wolff | Wolff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 la | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 has | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 has | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 Wolff | acl:relcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 occasion | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 occasion | nmod:poss |
| 32 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 occasion | nsubj |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 occasion | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 occasion | det |
| 35 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 has | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 opera | case |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 opera | det |
| 38 | opera | opera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 occasion | nmod |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 Victor | case |
| 40 | Victor | Victor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 opera | nmod |
| 41 | Nessler | Nessler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Victor | flat |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 1816 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect · passive | ed | ed's native land | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Scheffel Wolff | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | participle | turn | ed's occasion | of a opera by Victor | tree rules |
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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