More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 16
When hither as he drew the tripping Rear (Dreadful to think and difficult to swear!)
Who acts: Tradition · What happens: draw, think, swear · To what, where: tripping
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 (Tradition), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 hither | advmod |
| 2 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 5 drew | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 drew | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tripping | det |
| 7 | tripping | tripping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | obj |
| 8 | Rear | rear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 drew | xcomp |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dreadful | punct |
| 10 | Dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rear | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Dreadful | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 difficult | cc |
| 14 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rear | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 swear | mark |
| 16 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 difficult | xcomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rear | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Tradition | the tripping | hither, rear property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tripping=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Tradition not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | swear | to-infinitive | Tradition not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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