More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 28

168-9 and note, and it is impossible to avoid conjecturing that he adapted Verstegan to the locality.

Who acts: p. · What happens: be, avoid, conjecture, adapt · To what, where: Verstegan, locality

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 (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	168-9	168-9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 note	cc
3	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 168-9	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 impossible	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 impossible	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 impossible	expl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 impossible	cop
8	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 168-9	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 avoid	mark
10	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 impossible	csubj
11	conjecturing	conjecture	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 avoid	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 adapted	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 adapted	nsubj
14	adapted	adapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 conjecturing	advcl
15	Verstegan	Verstegan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 adapted	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 locality	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 locality	det
18	locality	locality	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 adapted	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 168-9	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			impossible property	tree rules
2	avoid	to-infinitive				vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	conjecture	gerund				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	adapt	past	p.	Verstegan	to the locality goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent verstegan=Patient to locality=Goal

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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