More English Fairy Tales, English Variants of Cinderella, sentence 60

It is practically impossible to use the long tabulations for comparative purposes without some such shorthand.

What happens: be, use · To what, where: long tabulations

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, English Variants of Cinderella. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 impossible	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	cop
3	practically	practically	ADV	_	4 impossible	advmod
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 use	mark
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 impossible	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tabulations	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tabulations	amod
9	tabulations	tabulation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 purposes	case
11	comparative	comparative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 purposes	amod
12	purposes	purpose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	obl
13	without	without	ADP	_	16 shorthand	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 shorthand	det
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shorthand	amod
16	shorthand	shorthand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						impossible, practically property	tree rules
2	use	to-infinitive		the long tabulations				for comparative purposes; without some such shorthand	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent tabulation=Theme for purpose=Eventuality

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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