More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 33
It is just possible that there may have been a local legend to account for the depopulation by an exodus of the children.
Who acts: i. · What happens: be · To what, where: possible local 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 (i.), 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 possible | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 possible | advmod |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 legend | amod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 been | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 been | expl |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 been | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 been | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 legend | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 legend | det |
| 11 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 legend | amod |
| 12 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 account | mark |
| 14 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 legend | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 depopulation | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 depopulation | det |
| 17 | depopulation | depopulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 account | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 exodus | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 exodus | det |
| 20 | exodus | exodus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 legend | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 children | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 children | det |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 exodus | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 legend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | i. | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | participle | a possible local legend and account for the depopulation | by a exodus of the children | tree rules |
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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