More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 6
_--The well-known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln (Hamelin), immortalised by Browning, will at once recur to every reader's mind.
Who acts: known story, reader · What happens: know, pi, immortalis, brown, recur, mind
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 (known story, reader), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 recur | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 known | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 recur | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Piper | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Piper | det |
| 10 | Pied | pi | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Piper | amod |
| 11 | Piper | Piper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Hameln | case |
| 13 | Hameln | Hameln | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Piper | nmod |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hamelin | punct |
| 15 | Hamelin | Hamelin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hameln | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hamelin | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 immortalised | punct |
| 18 | immortalised | immortalis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Piper | conj |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 Browning | mark |
| 20 | Browning | brown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 immortalised | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 recur | aux |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 recur | obl |
| 25 | recur | recur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 mind | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 reader | det |
| 28 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mind | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 reader | case |
| 30 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 recur | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 recur | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | pi | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | immortalis | participle | the known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | brown | gerund | the known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | recur | future | the known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln | to every reader's mind | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 6 | mind | every reader | nom mind «cognition 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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