More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 15

Here, as Tradition's hoary legend tells, A blinking Piper once with magic Spells And strains beyond a vulgar Bagpipe's sounds Gathered the dancing Country wide around.

Who acts: hoary legend · What happens: tell, blink, gather · To what, where: blinking Piper, dancing Country · 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 (hoary legend), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 tells	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 tells	mark
4	Tradition	Tradition	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 legend	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Tradition	case
6	hoary	hoary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 legend	amod
7	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	nsubj
8	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Piper	punct
10	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Piper	det
11	blinking	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 Piper	amod
12	Piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	obj
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 Piper	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 Spells	case
15	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Spells	compound
16	Spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Piper	nmod
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 strains	cc
18	strains	strain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Spells	conj
19	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	24 sounds	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Bagpipe	det
21	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Bagpipe	amod
22	Bagpipe	Bagpipe	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sounds	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Bagpipe	case
24	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Gathered	obl
25	Gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tells	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Country	det
27	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Country	compound
28	Country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Gathered	obj
29	wide	wide	ADV	_	30 around	advmod
30	around	around	ADV	_	25 Gathered	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Tradition's hoary legend	a blinking Piper	here	with magic Spells and strains	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent piper=Recipient clause=Topic
2	blink	gerund					vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gather	past		the dancing Country		beyond a vulgar Bagpipe's sounds; around property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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