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title: _--A rustic apologue, which is scarcely more than a prolonged pun on… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--A rustic apologue, which is scarcely more than a prolonged pun on "Coat o' Clay." Who acts: rustic apologue. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIX. Coat O Clay, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LIX. Coat O Clay, sentence 4

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\_--A rustic apologue, which is scarcely more than a prolonged pun on "Coat o' Clay."

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**Who acts:** rustic apologue · **What happens:** be, prolong

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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 (rustic apologue), 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:pg14241:50:4
# text = _--A rustic apologue, which is scarcely more than a prolonged pun on "Coat o' Clay."
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rustic	rustic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	apologue	apologue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	pun	pun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Coat	coat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	Clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a rustic apologue |  |  |  |  | than a prolonged pun on Coat o's Clay; more, scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prolong** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |

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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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