More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 4

Mr. Nutt, who kindly abridged it for me, writes, "Nothing in the shape of incident has been omitted, and there has been no rewriting beyond a phrase here and there rendered necessary by the process of abridgment.

Who acts: Nutt · What happens: abridge, write, omit, be, rewrite, render · To what, where: Library, Nothing, shape, no, abridgment

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nutt), 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 Nutt	nmod:desc
2	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 writes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 abridged	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 abridged	nsubj
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	6 abridged	advmod
6	abridged	abridge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Nutt	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 abridged	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 abridged	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nutt	punct
11	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Nothing	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Nothing	punct
14	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 writes	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 shape	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shape	det
17	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 omitted	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 incident	case
19	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shape	nmod
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 omitted	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 omitted	aux:pass
22	omitted	omit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 Nothing	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 been	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 been	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 been	expl
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 been	aux
27	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 writes	advcl
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 been	obj
29	rewriting	rewrite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 no	acl
30	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	32 phrase	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 phrase	det
32	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rewriting	obl
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 rendered	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 there	cc
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 here	conj
36	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 rewriting	advcl
37	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 rendered	xcomp
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 process	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 process	det
40	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 necessary	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 abridgment	case
42	abridgment	abridgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 process	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 writes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	abridge	past	Nutt Mr.	Library		for me; kindly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	write	present	Nutt Mr.	Nothing			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
3	omit in a quote	present · perfect · passive			the shape of incident		vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»
4	be in a quote	present · perfect	Nutt Mr. not said here	no	there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot no=Theme
5	rewrite in a quote	gerund				beyond a phrase	tree rules
6	render in a quote	participle			here	necessary property	vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	process in a quote			abridgment			nom process «act 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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