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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 26

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Mr. Shore, in his \_History of Hampshire\_, 1891, p. 185, refers to the legend, but evidently bases his reference on Elder, and so with all the modern references I have seen.

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**Who acts:** Shore, I, p. · **What happens:** refer, base, see · **To what, where:** reference, Elder

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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 (Shore, I, p.), 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:pg14241:35:26
# text = Mr. Shore, in his _History of Hampshire_, 1891, p. 185, refers to the legend, but evidently bases his reference on Elder, and so with all the modern references I have seen.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Shore	Shore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hampshire	Hampshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	1891	1891	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	185	185	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	bases	base	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | Shore  Mr.  1891 and p. |  |  |  |  | to the legend | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to legend=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **base** | present | Shore  Mr.  1891 and p. *not said here* | p.'s reference |  | Elder |  | evidently *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent reference=Theme on elder=Source |
| 3 | **see** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | with all modern references | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **refer** |  | p. |  |  |  |  |  | nom reference «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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