More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 38
But beguiling into a mountain is not known elsewhere except at Hameln, which was made widely known in England by Verstegan's and Howell's accounts, so that the Belfast variant is also probably to be traced to the _Rattenfänger_.
Who acts: Verstegan · What happens: beguile, not know, make, know, be, account · To what, where: mountain, Hameln, England, Belfast variant
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 (Verstegan), 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 | _ | 8 known | cc |
| 2 | beguiling | beguile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 mountain | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mountain | det |
| 5 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beguiling | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 known | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 known | advmod |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 8 known | advmod |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 12 Hameln | case |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Hameln | case |
| 12 | Hameln | Hameln | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux:pass |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Hameln | acl |
| 17 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 18 known | advmod |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 made | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 England | case |
| 20 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 known | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 accounts | case |
| 22 | Verstegan | Verstegan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 accounts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Verstegan | case |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Howell | cc |
| 25 | Howell | Howell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 accounts | compound |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Howell | case |
| 27 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 known | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 traced | punct |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 39 traced | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 so | fixed |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 variant | det |
| 32 | Belfast | Belfast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 variant | compound |
| 33 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 traced | cop |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 39 traced | advmod |
| 36 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 39 traced | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 traced | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 traced | aux:pass |
| 39 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 known | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 Rattenfänger | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Rattenfänger | det |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 Rattenfänger | punct |
| 43 | Rattenfänger | Rattenfänger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 traced | obl |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 traced | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beguile | gerund | a mountain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not know | present · passive | except Hameln; elsewhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | Hameln | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | know | participle | England | by Verstegan's Howell accounts; widely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | present · passive | the Belfast variant | to the Rattenfänger; probably, trace property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | account | Verstegan | nom account «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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