More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 7

Before Browning, it had been told in English in books as well known as Verstegan's _Restitution of Decayed Intelligence_, 1605; Howell's _Familiar Letters_ (see my edition, p. 357, _n.

Who acts: Familiar Letters, Verstegan, Howell · What happens: brown, tell, know, see, restitute, letter · To what, where: story, English, edition · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Familiar Letters, Verstegan, Howell), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 Browning	mark
2	Browning	brown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Browning	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 English	case
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 books	case
11	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obl
12	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	14 known	cc
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 as	fixed
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 told	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	19 Restitution	case
16	Verstegan	Verstegan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Restitution	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Verstegan	case
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 Restitution	punct
19	Restitution	restitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 known	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Decayed	case
21	Decayed	Decayed	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Restitution	appos
22	Intelligence	Intelligence	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Decayed	flat
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Decayed	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 1605	punct
25	1605	1605	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 Decayed	list
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
27	Howell	Howell	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Letters	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Howell	case
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 Letters	punct
30	Familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Letters	amod
31	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 see	nsubj
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	conj
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 edition	nmod:poss
36	edition	edition	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 see	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 p.	punct
38	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 edition	appos
39	357	357	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 p.	flat
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 n	punct
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 n	punct
42	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 edition	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	brown	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		story	English	in books	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	know	participle				as Verstegan's Restitution	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as restitution=Attribute
4	see	infinitive	Howell's Familiar Letters	my edition and n			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer edition=Stimulus
5	restitute		Verstegan				nom restitution «possession transitive»: poss=agent
6	letter		Howell				nom letter «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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