More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 17

It must therefore have been brought to Europe from the East and adapted to local conditions at Dort and Swaffham.

What happens: bring, adapt · To what, where: character, Europe, East, local conditions

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brought	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	aux
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 brought	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 brought	aux:pass
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Europe	case
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 East	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 East	det
11	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 adapted	cc
13	adapted	adapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 conditions	case
15	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 conditions	amod
16	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 adapted	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 Dort	case
18	Dort	Dort	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 conditions	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Swaffham	cc
20	Swaffham	Swaffham	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Dort	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	must · perfect · passive		character	Europe	the East		therefore property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme to europe=Destination from east=Initial_Location
2	adapt	past						to local conditions at Dort and Swaffham 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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