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title: _--The well-known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln (Hamelin), immor… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The well-known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln (Hamelin), immortalised by Browning, will at once recur to every reader's mind. Who acts: known story, reader. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 6

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\_--The well-known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln (Hamelin), immortalised by Browning, will at once recur to every reader's mind.

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**Who acts:** known story, reader · **What happens:** know, pi, immortalis, brown, recur, mind

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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 (known story, reader), 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:pg14241:35:6
# text = _--The well-known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln (Hamelin), immortalised by Browning, will at once recur to every reader's mind.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Pied	pi	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	Piper	Piper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Hameln	Hameln	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Hamelin	Hamelin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	immortalised	immortalis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	Browning	brown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	obl	_	_
25	recur	recur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pi** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **immortalis** | participle | the known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **brown** | gerund | the known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **recur** | future | the known story of the Pied Piper of Hameln |  |  |  |  | to every reader's mind | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 6 | **mind** |  | every reader |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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