More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 29

Newtown, when Hassel visited it in 1790, had only six or seven houses (_l.c.

Who acts: Newtown · What happens: visit, have · To what, where: locality, 1790, six houses

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 (Newtown), 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	Newtown	Newtown	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 visited	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Newtown	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 visited	advmod
4	Hassel	Hassel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 visited	nsubj
5	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 visited	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1790	case
8	1790	1790	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 visited	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 visited	conj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 six	advmod
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 houses	nummod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 seven	cc
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 six	conj
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 l.c	punct
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 l.c	punct
18	l.c	l.c	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 houses	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	past	Newtown	locality		1790			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
2	have	past	Newtown not said here	six houses and l.c					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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