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Aesop's Fable # 3: The Buffoon and the Countryman
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     Subordinate clauses are in brackets [ ]. / represents the vertical line at the end of a main clause.  The font size of words aleady analyzed has been decreased. The color codes for adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases have been deleted because too many colors seemed distracting. Words which remain to be analyzed are still in 14-point black. 

      {At a country fair}there was a Buffoon [Adj to "Buffoon" who made all the 

people laugh {by imitating the cries} {of various animals}]. / He finished off {by 

squeaking} so#1{like a pig}[Adv to "so" that the spectators thought [DO of "thought"

that he had a porker concealed (about him}]]./ But a Countryman

 [Adj to "Countryman" who stood by] said: [DO of "said" "Call that a pig's

squeak!]. / Nothing#2{like it}. / You give me {till tomorrow}  / and I will 

show you [DO of "said" what it's like#3.]" / The audience laughed, / but next

day, sure enough, the Countryman appeared{on the stage}, and putting his head

down squealed so#4 hideously [Adv to "so" that the spectators hissed and threw

stones {at him} to make him stop]. /  "You fools!" he cried#5, [DO of "cried" 

"see [DO of "see" what you have been hissing,]]" and held up a little pig [Adj to 

"pig" whose#6 ear he had been pinching to make him utter the squeals]. /

     Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. /
 

Gutenberg Project
Aesopa10.txt

Notes

1. "So" is an adverb modifying the prepositional phrase "like a pig," and the "that" clause connects to the "so."

2. See Level Two, Note 4.

3. See Level Two, Note 6.

4. See Note 1, above.

5. After students have been working with interjections (Level Five), I also explain this sentence by considering "he cried" as the subordinate clause, functioning as an interjecction.

6. Note that "whose" functions both as the subordinate conjunction and as an adjective to "ear."
 

Progress:
Total Words = 143 Words %
L1: In Prep Phrases  27  19
L1: + Adj & Adverbs + 24 36
+ L2: S / V / C + 58 76
+ L3: Clauses + 13 85

From The KISS Approach to Grammar http://www.pct.edu/courses/evavra/KISS.htm