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title: Unfortunately, the Scotticisms are so frequent as to render the drol… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Unfortunately, the Scotticisms are so frequent as to render the droll practically untranslatable. Who acts: Scotticisms. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. Johnny-cake., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXVIII. Johnny-cake., sentence 5

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Unfortunately, the Scotticisms are so frequent as to render the droll practically untranslatable.

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**Who acts:** Scotticisms · **What happens:** be, render · **To what, where:** droll

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:78:5
# text = Unfortunately, the Scotticisms are so frequent as to render the droll practically untranslatable.
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Scotticisms	scotticism	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	csubj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	droll	droll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	untranslatable	untranslatable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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