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title: But the expression "pied piper" which Elder used clearly came from V… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the expression "pied piper" which Elder used clearly came from Verstegan, and until evidence is shown to the contrary the whole of the legend was adapted from him. Who acts: Elder, expression. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tr
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 34

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But the expression "pied piper" which Elder used clearly came from Verstegan, and until evidence is shown to the contrary the whole of the legend was adapted from him.

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**Who acts:** Elder, expression · **What happens:** pi, use, come, show, adapt · **To what, where:** expression, Verstegan, evidence, contrary

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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 (Elder, expression), 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:pg14241:35:34
# text = But the expression "pied piper" which Elder used clearly came from Verstegan, and until evidence is shown to the contrary the whole of the legend was adapted from him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pied	pi	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Verstegan	Verstegan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	contrary	contrary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pi** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past | Elder | the expression |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the expression |  |  | Verstegan |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from verstegan=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **show** | present · passive |  | evidence | the contrary |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to contrary=Recipient |
| 5 | **adapt** | past · passive |  | the contrary *not said here* |  |  |  | from expression | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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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