More English Fairy Tales, LXXXII. Old Mother Wiggle Waggle, sentence 5

_--This is a pure bit of animal satire, which might have come from a rural Jefferies with somewhat more of wit than the native writer.

Who acts: _, pure bit · What happens: be, come · To what, where: pure bit, rural Jefferies

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXII. Old Mother Wiggle Waggle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, pure bit), 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nsubj
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 _	punct
3	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 bit	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 satire	case
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 satire	compound
10	satire	satire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 come	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bit	acl
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 Jefferies	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Jefferies	det
18	rural	rural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Jefferies	amod
19	Jefferies	Jeffery	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 come	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 wit	case
21	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 wit	amod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 wit	case
24	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
25	than	than	ADP	_	28 writer	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 writer	det
27	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 writer	amod
28	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wit	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	_	a pure bit				of animal satire	tree rules
2	come	might · perfect	a pure bit			a rural Jefferies		with more wit than the native writer	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from jeffery=Initial_Location

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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