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title: That's the only coat o' clay as 'll make such as _thee_ wise, lad. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That's the only coat o' clay as 'll make such as _thee_ wise, lad. Who acts: That. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 107

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That's the only coat o' clay as 'll make such as \_thee\_ wise, lad.

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** only coat, thee

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:22:107
# text = That's the only coat o' clay as 'll make such as _thee_ wise, lad.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	xcomp	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
17	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | the only coat |  |  |  | of clay | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | future |  | thee |  |  |  | such *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thou=Product |

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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.

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**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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