English Fairy Tales, IX. Binnorie., sentence 2

I have used the longer version in Roberts's _Legendary Ballads_, with one or two touches from Mr. Allingham's shorter and more powerful variant in _The Ballad Book_.

Who acts: I, Allingham · What happens: use, vary · To what, where: longer version, Legendary Ballads, Ballad Book

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Binnorie.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Allingham), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 used	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 version	det
5	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 version	amod
6	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	12 Ballads	case
8	Roberts	Roberts	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ballads	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Roberts	case
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 Ballads	punct
11	Legendary	legendary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Ballads	amod
12	Ballads	ballad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 version	nmod
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 touches	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 touches	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 touches	nummod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 two	cc
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 one	conj
19	touches	touch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 used	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	28 variant	case
21	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Allingham	nmod:desc
22	Allingham	Allingham	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 variant	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Allingham	case
24	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 variant	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 powerful	cc
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 powerful	advmod
27	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shorter	conj
28	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 touches	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 Book	case
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 in	punct
31	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Book	det
32	Ballad	Ballad	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Book	compound
33	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 variant	nmod
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 touches	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · perfect	I	the longer version		Roberts's Legendary Ballads			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient
2	vary		Allingham Mr.			the Ballad Book			nom variant «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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