---
title: The chief question of interest attaching to the English form of the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief question of interest attaching to the English form of the legend as given in 1839 by Elder, is whether it is independent of the German myth. Who acts: chief question. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/24/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [XLIV. the Pied Piper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/) / 24

# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 24

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The chief question of interest attaching to the English form of the legend as given in 1839 by Elder, is whether it is independent of the German myth.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** chief question · **What happens:** attach, give, be, question, form · **To what, where:** legend, 1839, interest

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (chief question), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg14241:35:24
# text = The chief question of interest attaching to the English form of the legend as given in 1839 by Elder, is whether it is independent of the German myth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	attaching	attach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1839	1839	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attach** | gerund | the chief question of interest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the English form of the legend | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to form=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the legend *not said here* |  | 1839 |  | by Elder | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the chief question of interest |  |  |  |  | of the German myth; independent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **question** |  |  | interest |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | the legend |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/23/)
- next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/25/)
- ↑ back to [XLIV. the Pied Piper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/)