More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 37

Magic pipers are not unknown to English folk-lore, as in the Percy ballad of _The Frere and the Boy_, or in the nursery rhyme of Tom the Piper's son in its more extended form.

Who acts: Magic pipers, Tom, Piper · What happens: not be, rhyme, form

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 (Magic pipers, Tom, Piper), 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	Magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pipers	amod
2	pipers	piper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unknown	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unknown	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 unknown	advmod
5	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 lore	case
7	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lore	amod
8	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lore	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 folk	punct
10	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unknown	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ballad	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	16 ballad	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 ballad	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ballad	det
15	Percy	Percy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ballad	compound
16	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lore	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Frere	case
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 of	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Frere	det
20	Frere	Frere	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ballad	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Boy	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Boy	det
23	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Frere	conj
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 Frere	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rhyme	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 rhyme	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 rhyme	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rhyme	det
29	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rhyme	compound
30	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Frere	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Tom	case
32	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 rhyme	nmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Piper	det
34	Piper	Piper	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 son	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Piper	case
36	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ballad	vocative
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 form	case
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 form	nmod:poss
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 extended	advmod
40	extended	extended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 form	amod
41	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ballad	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unknown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Magic pipers	to English folk lore; unknown property	tree rules
2	rhyme		Tom		nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: of=agent
3	form		Piper		nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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