More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 21

_--Mr. Baring-Gould, in his _Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_, has explained the Pied Piper as a wind myth.

What happens: explain, pi · To what, where: Baring

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: 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 explained	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 explained	punct
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Baring	nmod:desc
4	Baring	Baring	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 explained	nsubj:pass
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Gould	punct
6	Gould	Gould	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Baring	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Myths	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 Myths	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Myths	nmod:poss
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 Myths	punct
11	Curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Myths	amod
12	Myths	Myths	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 Baring	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 Ages	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Ages	det
15	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Ages	flat
16	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 Myths	nmod
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 Myths	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Baring	punct
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 explained	aux
20	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Piper	det
22	Pied	pi	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 Piper	amod
23	Piper	Piper	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 explained	obj
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 myth	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 myth	det
26	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 myth	compound
27	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 explained	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		Baring Mr. and Gould				as a wind myth	tree rules
2	pi	participle							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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