--- title: Here again, as in the case of Beddgellert (_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No.… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Here again, as in the case of Beddgellert (_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. xxi.), the Blinded Giant and the Pedlar of Swaffham (_infra_, Nos. lxi., lxiii.), we have an imported legend adapted to local conditions. Who acts: we. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/39/) [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/) / 39 # More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 39 Here again, as in the case of Beddgellert (\_Celtic Fairy Tales\_, No. xxi.), the Blinded Giant and the Pedlar of Swaffham (\_infra\_, Nos. lxi., lxiii.), we have an imported legend adapted to local conditions. **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** blind, have, import, adapt · **To what, where:** imported legend, local conditions 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 (we), 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:pg14241:35:39 # text = Here again, as in the case of Beddgellert (_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. xxi.), the Blinded Giant and the Pedlar of Swaffham (_infra_, Nos. lxi., lxiii.), we have an imported legend adapted to local conditions. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 2 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Beddgellert Beddgellert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Celtic celtic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 No. no. DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 xxi xxi NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 23 Blinded blind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 parataxis _ _ 24 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Pedlar Pedlar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Swaffham Swaffham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 infra infra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 33 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Nos Nos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ 37 lxi lxi NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 lxiii lxiii NUM LS _ 37 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 46 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 imported import VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 amod _ _ 48 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 adapted adapt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 acl _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 conditions condition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blind** | participle | | | | | | giant *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | we | a imported legend | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Patient | | 3 | **import** | participle | | | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **adapt** | participle | | a imported legend *not said here* | | | | to local conditions *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to condition=Goal | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/38/) - next →: [XLV. 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