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title: Mr. Batten's portrait renders this somewhat superfluous. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Batten's portrait renders this somewhat superfluous. Who acts: portrait, Batten. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton., sentence 5

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Mr. Batten's portrait renders this somewhat superfluous.

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

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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.

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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:pg7439:88:5
# text = Mr. Batten's portrait renders this somewhat superfluous.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Batten	Batten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	renders	render	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
7	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	superfluous	superfluous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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