More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 9
Browning is said to have taken it from the last source (Furnivall, _Browning Bibliography_, 158), though there are touches which seem to me to come from Howell (see my note _ad loc.
Who acts: touches, my · What happens: say, take, brown, be, seem, come · To what, where: Browning, story, last source, Bibliography, me, Howell · 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 (touches, my), 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 | Browning | browning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 taken | mark |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 source | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 source | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 source | amod |
| 11 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Furnivall | punct |
| 13 | Furnivall | Furnivall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 source | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Browning | punct |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Browning | punct |
| 16 | Browning | brown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 17 | Bibliography | bibliography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Browning | obj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Bibliography | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 158 | punct |
| 20 | 158 | 158 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Bibliography | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 158 | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 are | punct |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 are | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 are | expl |
| 25 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 26 | touches | touch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 are | nsubj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 seem | nsubj |
| 28 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 touches | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 seem | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 come | mark |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 seem | xcomp |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 Howell | case |
| 34 | Howell | Howell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 come | obl |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 come | conj |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 note | nmod:poss |
| 38 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | obj |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 41 loc | punct |
| 40 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 loc | compound |
| 41 | loc | loc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Browning | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive · perfect | story | the last source | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from source=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | brown | gerund | Bibliography | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bibliography=Patient | |||||
| 4 | does | present | touches | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seem | present | touches | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive | touches not said here | Howell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from howell=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | see | infinitive | touches not said here | my note | ad loc obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | note | my | nom note «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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