More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 39

Here again, as in the case of Beddgellert (_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. xxi.), the Blinded Giant and the Pedlar of Swaffham (_infra_, Nos. lxi., lxiii.), we have an imported legend adapted to local conditions.

Who acts: we · What happens: blind, have, import, adapt · To what, where: imported legend, local conditions

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 (we), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Here	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 case	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 case	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 case	det
7	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Beddgellert	case
9	Beddgellert	Beddgellert	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 case	nmod
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 Tales	punct
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 Tales	punct
12	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Tales	amod
13	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Tales	compound
14	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Beddgellert	appos
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 Tales	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 xxi	punct
17	No.	no.	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 xxi	det
18	xxi	xxi	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 case	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lxi	det
23	Blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 lxi	parataxis
24	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Blinded	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lxi	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Pedlar	det
27	Pedlar	Pedlar	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 lxi	compound
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Swaffham	case
29	Swaffham	Swaffham	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Pedlar	nmod
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 infra	punct
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 infra	punct
32	infra	infra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Pedlar	parataxis
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 infra	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Nos	punct
35	Nos	Nos	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 lxi	compound
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 Nos	punct
37	lxi	lxi	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	nsubj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 lxi	punct
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 lxiii	punct
40	lxiii	lxiii	NUM	_	37 lxi	flat
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 have	punct
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 have	nsubj
45	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	parataxis
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 legend	det
47	imported	import	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 legend	amod
48	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 have	obj
49	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 legend	acl
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 conditions	case
51	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 conditions	amod
52	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 adapted	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blind	participle			giant property	tree rules
2	have	present	we	a imported legend		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Patient
3	import	participle				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	adapt	participle		a imported legend not said here	to local conditions goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent to condition=Goal

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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