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title: But a still closer parallel is afforded by Milton's _Comus_. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But a still closer parallel is afforded by Milton's _Comus_. Who acts: _. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 27

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But a still closer parallel is afforded by Milton's \_Comus\_.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** afford · **To what, where:** closer parallel

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_), 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:pg7439:71:27
# text = But a still closer parallel is afforded by Milton's _Comus_.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	afforded	afford	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Milton	Milton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Comus	Comus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afford** | present · passive | Milton's \_ | a closer parallel |  |  |  |  | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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