More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 4

Mr. Nutt, who has abridged and partly rewritten the story from a copy of Elder's book in his possession, has introduced a couple of touches from Browning.

Who acts: Nutt · What happens: abridge, rewrite, introduce, copy, possess · To what, where: story, copy, Nutt, book

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 (Nutt), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nutt	nmod:desc
2	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 introduced	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 abridged	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 abridged	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 abridged	aux
6	abridged	abridge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Nutt	acl:relcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rewritten	cc
8	partly	partly	ADV	_	9 rewritten	advmod
9	rewritten	rewrite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 abridged	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rewritten	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 copy	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 copy	det
14	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rewritten	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 book	case
16	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 book	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Elder	case
18	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 copy	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 possession	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 possession	nmod:poss
21	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 book	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nutt	punct
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 introduced	aux
24	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 couple	det
26	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 introduced	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 touches	case
28	touches	touch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 couple	nmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 Browning	case
30	Browning	Browning	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 touches	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 introduced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	abridge	present · perfect	Nutt Mr.				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	rewrite	participle	Nutt Mr. not said here	the story	a copy of Elder's book in Nutt's possession	partly property	tree rules
3	introduce	present · perfect · passive		Nutt Mr.			tree rules
4	copy			Elder's book in Nutt's possession			nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	possess		Nutt				nom possession «act 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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