English Fairy Tales, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton., sentence 5

Mr. Batten's portrait renders this somewhat superfluous.

Who acts: portrait, Batten · What happens: render, portray

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portrait, Batten), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Batten	nmod:desc
2	Batten	Batten	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 portrait	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Batten	case
4	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 renders	nsubj
5	renders	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 superfluous	nsubj
7	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	8 superfluous	advmod
8	superfluous	superfluous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 renders	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 renders	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	present	Batten Mr.'s portrait						vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	portray		Batten Mr.						nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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