--- title: She does not, however, give any well-authenticated historical event… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She does not, however, give any well-authenticated historical event at Hameln in the thirteenth century which could have plausibly given rise to the legend, nor can I find any in the _Urkundenbuch_ of Hameln (Luneberg, 1883). Who acts: substratum, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (substratum, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:35:23 # text = She does not, however, give any well-authenticated historical event at Hameln in the thirteenth century which could have plausibly given rise to the legend, nor can I find any in the _Urkundenbuch_ of Hameln (Luneberg, 1883). 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 however however ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 8 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 9 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 authenticated authenticate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 12 historical historical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Hameln Hameln PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 thirteenth thirteenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 obj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux _ _ 23 plausibly plausibly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 33 cc _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 34 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 33 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Urkundenbuch Urkundenbuch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Hameln Hameln PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Luneberg Luneberg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 1883 1883 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** | present | substratum | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | present | | any authenticated historical event | | Hameln | century | however *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent event=Theme at hameln=Asset | | 3 | **authenticate** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | could · perfect | | the thirteenth century | | | | plausibly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient rise=Theme | | 5 | **find** | can | I | any | | the Urkundenbuch \_ of Hameln | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Topic | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/24/) - ↑ back to [XLIV. the Pied Piper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/)