English Fairy Tales, XXVIII. Johnny-cake., sentence 5
Unfortunately, the Scotticisms are so frequent as to render the droll practically untranslatable.
Who acts: Scotticisms · What happens: be, render · To what, where: droll
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. Johnny-cake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scotticisms), 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 | Unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 7 frequent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unfortunately | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Scotticisms | det |
| 4 | Scotticisms | scotticism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 frequent | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 frequent | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 frequent | advmod |
| 7 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 render | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 render | mark |
| 10 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 frequent | csubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 droll | det |
| 12 | droll | droll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 render | obj |
| 13 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 14 untranslatable | advmod |
| 14 | untranslatable | untranslatable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 droll | amod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 frequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Scotticisms | frequent, unfortunately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | render | to-infinitive | the droll | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent droll=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: «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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