More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 27
Now Elder himself quotes Verstegan in his comments on the legend, pp.
Who acts: Elder, p. · What happens: quote, comment · To what, where: Verstegan, comments, legend
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 (Elder, p.), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 quotes | advmod |
| 2 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 quotes | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 Elder | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | quotes | quote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Verstegan | Verstegan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 quotes | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 comments | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 comments | nmod:poss |
| 8 | comments | comment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 quotes | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 legend | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 legend | det |
| 11 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comments | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pp | punct |
| 13 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 legend | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quotes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | present | Elder p. | Verstegan | p.'s comments on the legend and pp | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verstegan=Topic | ||
| 2 | comment | p. | the legend and pp | nom comment «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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