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title: _--Mr. Baring-Gould, in his _Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_, has… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Mr. Baring-Gould, in his _Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_, has explained the Pied Piper as a wind myth. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 21

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\_--Mr. Baring-Gould, in his \_Curious Myths of the Middle Ages\_, has explained the Pied Piper as a wind myth.

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**What happens:** explain, pi · **To what, where:** Baring

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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: 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:pg14241:35:21
# text = _--Mr. Baring-Gould, in his _Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_, has explained the Pied Piper as a wind myth.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Baring	Baring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Gould	Gould	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Myths	Myths	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
16	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Pied	pi	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	Piper	Piper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | Baring  Mr. and Gould |  |  |  | as a wind myth | tree rules |
| 2 | **pi** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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