More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 30

_, i., 137-8), though it had the privilege of returning two members to Parliament; it had been a populous town by the name of Franchville before the French invasion of the island of _temp.

Who acts: i., privilege, locality · What happens: have, return, be, name, invade · To what, where: privilege, two members, Parliament, populous town, Franchville, island

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 (i., privilege, locality), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 i.	punct
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 i.	punct
3	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	10 had	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 137-8	punct
5	137-8	137-8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 i.	appos
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 137-8	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 privilege	det
12	privilege	privilege	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 returning	mark
14	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 privilege	acl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 members	nummod
16	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 returning	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Parliament	case
18	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 returning	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 town	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 town	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 town	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 town	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 town	det
24	populous	populace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 town	compound
25	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 name	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 name	det
28	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 town	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Franchville	case
30	Franchville	Franchville	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 name	nmod
31	before	before	ADP	_	34 invasion	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 invasion	det
33	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 invasion	amod
34	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 town	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 island	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 island	det
37	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 invasion	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 temp	case
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	40 temp	punct
40	temp	temp	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 island	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	i.	the privilege				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent privilege=Patient
2	return	gerund	the privilege not said here	two members	Parliament			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent member=Theme to parliament=Destination
3	is a	past · perfect	locality	a populous town		before the French invasion of the island of temp	by the name of Franchville	tree rules
4	name			Franchville				nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	invade			the island of temp				nom invasion «act 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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