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title: _--Mr. Clouston's _Book of Noodles_ is little else than a series of… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Mr. Clouston's _Book of Noodles_ is little else than a series of parallels to our droll. Who acts: Clouston _ Book, parallels. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 5

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

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

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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.

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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:pg14241:79:5
# text = _--Mr. Clouston's _Book of Noodles_ is little else than a series of parallels to our droll.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Noodles	Noodle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	else	else	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	droll	droll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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