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title: Here, as Tradition's hoary legend tells, A blinking Piper once with… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, as Tradition's hoary legend tells, A blinking Piper once with magic Spells And strains beyond a vulgar Bagpipe's sounds Gathered the dancing Country wide around. Who acts: hoary legend. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tree an
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 15

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Here, as Tradition's hoary legend tells, A blinking Piper once with magic Spells And strains beyond a vulgar Bagpipe's sounds Gathered the dancing Country wide around.

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**Who acts:** hoary legend · **What happens:** tell, blink, gather · **To what, where:** blinking Piper, dancing Country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hoary legend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:35:15
# text = Here, as Tradition's hoary legend tells, A blinking Piper once with magic Spells And strains beyond a vulgar Bagpipe's sounds Gathered the dancing Country wide around.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	Tradition	Tradition	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	hoary	hoary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	blinking	blink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	Piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	strains	strain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Bagpipe	Bagpipe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
25	Gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	around	around	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Tradition's hoary legend | a blinking Piper |  | here |  | with magic Spells and strains | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent piper=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **blink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gather** | past |  | the dancing Country |  |  |  | beyond a vulgar Bagpipe's sounds; around *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |

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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.

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**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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