More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 6

_Lawtrod_ = lap board on which the tailor irons; _tow cards_, the comb with which tow is carded; the _clove_, a heavy wooden knife for breaking up the flax.

Who acts: Lawtrod, heavy wooden knife · What happens: lap, card, break up · To what, where: board, tailor irons, comb, flax

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lawtrod, heavy wooden knife), 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	_	2 Lawtrod	punct
2	Lawtrod	Lawtrod	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lap	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Lawtrod	punct
4	=	=	SYM	_	5 lap	punct
5	lap	lap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lap	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 irons	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 irons	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 irons	det
10	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 irons	compound
11	irons	iron	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lap	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 carded	punct
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 cards	punct
14	tow	tow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cards	compound
15	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 carded	obl
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 carded	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 comb	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 comb	det
19	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carded	nsubj:pass
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 tow	case
21	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	22 tow	det
22	tow	tow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comb	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 carded	aux:pass
24	carded	card	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lap	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 clove	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 clove	det
27	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 clove	amod
28	clove	clove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lap	parataxis
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 clove	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 knife	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 knife	det
32	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 knife	amod
33	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 knife	amod
34	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clove	conj
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 breaking	mark
36	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 knife	acl
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 breaking	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flax	det
39	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 breaking	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lap	infinitive	Lawtrod	board	the tailor irons		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Patient
2	card	present · passive		the comb with which tow		tow cards obl	tree rules
3	break up	gerund	a heavy wooden knife not said here	the flax			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Patient

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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