More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 22
Mrs. Gutch is inclined to think there may be a substratum of fact at the root of the legend, basing her conclusions on a pamphlet of Dr. Meinardus, _Der historische Kern_, which I have not seen.
Who acts: substratum, legend · What happens: incline, think, be, base, not see, conclude · To what, where: Mrs., conclusions, pamphlet, substratum · 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 (substratum, 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 inclined | nsubj |
| 2 | Gutch | Gutch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 inclined | aux:pass |
| 4 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 inclined | xcomp |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 be | expl |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 think | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 substratum | det |
| 11 | substratum | substratum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 be | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fact | case |
| 13 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 substratum | nmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 root | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 root | det |
| 16 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fact | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 legend | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 legend | det |
| 19 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 root | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 basing | punct |
| 21 | basing | base | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 legend | acl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 conclusions | nmod:poss |
| 23 | conclusions | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 basing | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 pamphlet | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pamphlet | det |
| 26 | pamphlet | pamphlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 basing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Meinardus | case |
| 28 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Meinardus | nmod:desc |
| 29 | Meinardus | Meinardus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 pamphlet | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 _ | punct |
| 31 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Meinardus | appos |
| 32 | Der | Der | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 _ | flat |
| 33 | historische | historische | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pamphlet | conj |
| 34 | Kern | Kern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 historische | appos |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 substratum | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 seen | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 seen | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 seen | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 seen | advmod |
| 41 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 substratum | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inclined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline | present · passive | Mrs. | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | be | may | a substratum of fact at the root of the legend | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | base | gerund | the legend not said here | substratum's conclusions | a pamphlet of Meinardus Dr. and historische | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent conclusion=Theme on pamphlet=Source | |||
| 5 | not see | present · perfect · passive | a substratum of fact at the root of the legend | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | conclude | substratum | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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