More English Fairy Tales, LIX. Coat O Clay, sentence 5

Mrs. Balfour's telling redeems it from the usual dulness of folk-tales with a moral or a double meaning.

Who acts: telling, Mrs. · What happens: redeem, tell · To what, where: pun, usual dulness · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (telling, Mrs.), 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	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 telling	nmod:poss
2	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs.	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Mrs.	case
4	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 redeems	nsubj
5	redeems	redeem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 redeems	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 dulness	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dulness	det
9	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dulness	amod
10	dulness	dulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 redeems	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 tales	case
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tales	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 folk	punct
14	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dulness	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 moral	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 moral	det
17	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tales	nmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 meaning	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 meaning	det
20	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meaning	amod
21	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 moral	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 redeems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	redeem	present	Mrs.'s telling	pun		the usual dulness of folk tales with a moral or a double meaning			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from dulness=Source
2	tell		Mrs.						nom telling «communication transitive»: poss=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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