More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 4
The place was so infested with them as to be scarce worth living in.
Who acts: scarce worth · What happens: infest, be, live in · To what, where: place, scarce worth
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scarce worth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 infested | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 infested | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 infested | advmod |
| 5 | infested | infest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 infested | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 worth | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 worth | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 worth | cop |
| 11 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 worth | amod |
| 12 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 infested | parataxis |
| 13 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 worth | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 living | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 infested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | infest | past · passive | the place | with rats = rat | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | scarce worth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live in | gerund | scarce worth not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
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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