English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 79
It is otherwise difficult to account for such a circumstantial description of the interior of these mounds, and especially of such a detail as the terrace cultivation on them.
What happens: be, describe · To what, where: interior
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: 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 difficult | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 difficult | cop |
| 3 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 4 difficult | advmod |
| 4 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 account | mark |
| 6 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 difficult | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 description | case |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 description | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 description | det |
| 10 | circumstantial | circumstantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 description | amod |
| 11 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 account | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 interior | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 interior | det |
| 14 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 description | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mounds | case |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 mounds | det |
| 17 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 interior | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 detail | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 detail | cc |
| 20 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 24 detail | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 detail | case |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 detail | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 detail | det |
| 24 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 difficult | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 cultivation | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cultivation | det |
| 27 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cultivation | compound |
| 28 | cultivation | cultivation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 detail | nmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cultivation | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | difficult, otherwise property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | describe | the interior of this mounds | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: «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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