More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 5

_--Mr. Clouston's _Book of Noodles_ is little else than a series of parallels to our droll.

Who acts: Clouston _ Book, parallels · What happens: be, droll

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clouston _ Book, parallels), 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	_	7 Book	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 Book	punct
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Clouston	nmod:desc
4	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Book	compound
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Clouston	case
6	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Book	compound
7	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 little	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Noodles	case
9	Noodles	Noodle	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 Book	nmod
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 Book	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 little	cop
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 little	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 series	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 series	det
16	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 little	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 parallels	case
18	parallels	parallel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 series	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 droll	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 droll	nmod:poss
21	droll	droll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 parallels	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 little	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Clouston _ Book of Noodles					than a series of parallels; else, little property	tree rules
2	droll	infinitive	parallels not said here						tree rules

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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