More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 34

But the expression "pied piper" which Elder used clearly came from Verstegan, and until evidence is shown to the contrary the whole of the legend was adapted from him.

Who acts: Elder, expression · What happens: pi, use, come, show, adapt · To what, where: expression, Verstegan, evidence, contrary

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, expression), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 expression	punct
5	pied	pi	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 piper	amod
6	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expression	appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 piper	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 used	obj
9	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 used	nsubj
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 expression	acl:relcl
11	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	10 used	advmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Verstegan	case
14	Verstegan	Verstegan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shown	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shown	cc
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 shown	mark
18	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shown	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 shown	aux:pass
20	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 came	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 contrary	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 contrary	det
23	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shown	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 whole	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 adapted	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 legend	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 legend	det
28	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whole	obl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 adapted	aux:pass
30	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 contrary	acl:relcl
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 adapted	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pi in a quote	participle						tree rules
2	use	past	Elder	the expression			clearly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
3	come	past	the expression			Verstegan		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from verstegan=Initial_Location
4	show	present · passive		evidence	the contrary			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to contrary=Recipient
5	adapt	past · passive		the contrary not said here			from expression	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»

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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