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title: Magic pipers are not unknown to English folk-lore, as in the Percy b… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 37

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Magic pipers are not unknown to English folk-lore, as in the Percy ballad of \_The Frere and the Boy\_, or in the nursery rhyme of Tom the Piper's son in its more extended form.

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**Who acts:** Magic pipers, Tom, Piper · **What happens:** not be, rhyme, form

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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 (Magic pipers, Tom, Piper), 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:pg14241:35:37
# text = Magic pipers are not unknown to English folk-lore, as in the Percy ballad of _The Frere and the Boy_, or in the nursery rhyme of Tom the Piper's son in its more extended form.
1	Magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pipers	piper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Percy	Percy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Frere	Frere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Piper	Piper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
39	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	advmod	_	_
40	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Magic pipers |  |  |  |  | to English folk lore; unknown *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rhyme** |  | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **form** |  | Piper |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «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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