More English Fairy Tales, LIX. Coat O Clay, sentence 4
_--A rustic apologue, which is scarcely more than a prolonged pun on "Coat o' Clay."
Who acts: rustic apologue · What happens: be, prolong
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIX. Coat O Clay. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rustic apologue), 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 | _ | 5 apologue | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 apologue | punct |
| 3 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 apologue | det |
| 4 | rustic | rustic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 apologue | amod |
| 5 | apologue | apologue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 more | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 more | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 more | cop |
| 9 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 apologue | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 pun | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pun | det |
| 13 | prolonged | prolong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pun | amod |
| 14 | pun | pun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 more | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Clay | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Clay | punct |
| 17 | Coat | coat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 o | amod |
| 18 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Clay | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 o | case |
| 20 | Clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pun | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 apologue | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 apologue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a rustic apologue | than a prolonged pun on Coat o's Clay; more, scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prolong | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
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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