More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 24
The chief question of interest attaching to the English form of the legend as given in 1839 by Elder, is whether it is independent of the German myth.
Who acts: chief question · What happens: attach, give, be, question, form · To what, where: legend, 1839, interest
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 (chief question), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 question | amod |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 independent | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 interest | case |
| 5 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 question | nmod |
| 6 | attaching | attach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 question | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 form | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 9 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 form | amod |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attaching | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 legend | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 legend | det |
| 13 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 form | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 given | mark |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 legend | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1839 | case |
| 17 | 1839 | 1839 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 given | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Elder | case |
| 19 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 question | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 independent | cop |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 25 independent | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 independent | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 independent | cop |
| 25 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 myth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 myth | det |
| 28 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 myth | amod |
| 29 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 independent | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 independent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | gerund | the chief question of interest not said here | to the English form of the legend | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to form=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the legend not said here | 1839 | by Elder | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | the chief question of interest | of the German myth; independent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | question | interest | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | form | the legend | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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