More English Fairy Tales, LVI. Tattercoats, sentence 9

_--_Tattercoats_ is of interest chiefly as being without any "fairy" or supernatural elements, unless the magic pipe can be so considered; it certainly gives the tale a fairy-like element.

Who acts: Tattercoats, pipe · What happens: be, consider, give · To what, where: magic pipe, tale

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVI. Tattercoats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tattercoats, pipe), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 chiefly	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 chiefly	punct
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 chiefly	punct
4	Tattercoats	Tattercoats	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 chiefly	nsubj
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 Tattercoats	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chiefly	cop
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 interest	case
8	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chiefly	obl
9	chiefly	chiefly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 fairy	mark
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fairy	cop
12	without	without	ADP	_	15 fairy	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 fairy	det
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 fairy	punct
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chiefly	advcl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 fairy	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 elements	cc
18	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 elements	amod
19	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fairy	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 considered	punct
21	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	28 considered	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pipe	det
23	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pipe	compound
24	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 considered	nsubj:pass
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 considered	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 considered	aux:pass
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 considered	advmod
28	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 chiefly	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 gives	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gives	nsubj
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	32 gives	advmod
32	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chiefly	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tale	det
34	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gives	obj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 element	det
36	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 like	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 fairy	punct
38	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 element	amod
39	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gives	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 chiefly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tattercoats		of interest; chiefly property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	gerund	Tattercoats not said here		without any fairy or supernatural elements	tree rules
3	consider	can · passive		the magic pipe		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
4	give	present	pipe	the tale	certainly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient element=Theme

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.

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