More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 14

227-52, quotes a poem, _The Sea Piece_, published by Dr. Kirkpatrick in 1750, as showing that a similar legend was told of the Cave Hill, Belfast.

Who acts: 227-52 · What happens: quote, publish, show, tell · To what, where: poem, Sea Piece, 1750, similar legend · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (227-52), 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	227-52	227-52	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 quotes	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 227-52	punct
3	quotes	quote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 poem	det
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quotes	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Piece	punct
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Piece	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Piece	det
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Piece	compound
10	Piece	Piece	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 quotes	obl
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Piece	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 published	punct
13	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Piece	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 Kirkpatrick	case
15	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Kirkpatrick	nmod:desc
16	Kirkpatrick	Kirkpatrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 published	obl:agent
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 1750	case
18	1750	1750	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 published	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 showing	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 showing	mark
21	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 quotes	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 told	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 legend	det
24	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 legend	amod
25	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	aux:pass
27	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 showing	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Hill	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Hill	det
30	Cave	Cave	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Hill	compound
31	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 told	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Belfast	punct
33	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Hill	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 quotes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quote speech: other	present	227-52	a poem		the Sea Piece obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Topic
2	publish	participle		the Sea Piece not said here	1750		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	show	gerund	227-52 not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past · passive		a similar legend		of the Cave Hill	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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