More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 25
It does not occur in any of the local histories of the Isle of Wight which I have been able to consult of a date previous to Elder's book--_e.g._, J. Hassel, _Tour of the Isle of Wight_, 1790.
Who acts: question, local histories · What happens: not occur, be, consult · To what, where: any
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 (question, local histories), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 occur | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 occur | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 occur | advmod |
| 4 | occur | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 any | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 occur | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 histories | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 histories | det |
| 9 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 histories | amod |
| 10 | histories | history | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 any | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Isle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Isle | det |
| 13 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 histories | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Wight | case |
| 15 | Wight | Wight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Isle | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 able | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 able | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 histories | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 consult | mark |
| 22 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 date | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 date | det |
| 25 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 consult | obl |
| 26 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 date | amod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 book | case |
| 28 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 book | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Elder | case |
| 30 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 previous | obl |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 e.g. | punct |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 e.g. | punct |
| 33 | e.g. | e.g. | ADV | _ | 4 occur | conj |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 e.g. | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Hassel | punct |
| 36 | J. | J. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Hassel | compound |
| 37 | Hassel | Hassel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 e.g. | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Tour | punct |
| 39 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Tour | compound |
| 40 | Tour | Tour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Hassel | appos |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Isle | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Isle | det |
| 43 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Tour | nmod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Wight | case |
| 45 | Wight | Wight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Isle | nmod |
| 46 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Hassel | punct |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 1790 | punct |
| 48 | 1790 | 1790 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 e.g. | appos |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 occur | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not occur | present · do-support | question | any | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in any=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | the local histories of the Isle of Wight | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | consult | to-infinitive | the local histories of the Isle of Wight not said here | of a date | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of date=Recipient |
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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