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title: _Lawtrod_ = lap board on which the tailor irons; _tow cards_, the co… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Lawtrod_ = lap board on which the tailor irons; _tow cards_, the comb with which tow is carded; the _clove_, a heavy wooden knife for breaking up the flax. Who acts: Lawtrod, heavy wooden knife. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock, with its dependency tr
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# More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 6

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\_Lawtrod\_ = lap board on which the tailor irons; \_tow cards\_, the comb with which tow is carded; the \_clove\_, a heavy wooden knife for breaking up the flax.

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**Who acts:** Lawtrod, heavy wooden knife · **What happens:** lap, card, break up · **To what, where:** board, tailor irons, comb, flax

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lawtrod, heavy wooden knife), 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:pg14241:48:6
# text = _Lawtrod_ = lap board on which the tailor irons; _tow cards_, the comb with which tow is carded; the _clove_, a heavy wooden knife for breaking up the flax.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lawtrod	Lawtrod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
4	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	5	punct	_	_
5	lap	lap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	irons	iron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tow	tow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	tow	tow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	carded	card	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	clove	clove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lap** | infinitive | Lawtrod | board |  | the tailor irons |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Patient |
| 2 | **card** | present · passive |  | the comb with which tow |  |  |  | tow cards *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break up** | gerund | a heavy wooden knife *not said here* | the flax |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Patient |

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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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