Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 46
W. H. Allen have been equally obliging with regard to Mrs. Kingscote's "Tales of the Sun." Mr. M. L. Dames has enabled me add to the published story-store of India by granting me the use of one from his inedited collection of Baluchi folk-tales.
Who acts: W., L., me · What happens: oblige, enable, add, publish, grant · To what, where: me, use, inedited collection
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W., L., me), 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 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 obliging | nsubj |
| 2 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W. | flat |
| 3 | Allen | Allen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W. | flat |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 obliging | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 obliging | aux |
| 6 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 7 obliging | advmod |
| 7 | obliging | oblige | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 regard | case |
| 9 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obliging | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Tales | case |
| 11 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Kingscote | compound |
| 12 | Kingscote | Kingscote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Kingscote | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tales | punct |
| 15 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 regard | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Sun. | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sun. | det |
| 18 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tales | nmod |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tales | punct |
| 20 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 M. | nmod:desc |
| 21 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tales | nmod |
| 22 | L. | L. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 enabled | nsubj |
| 23 | Dames | Dames | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 L. | flat |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 enabled | aux |
| 25 | enabled | enable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 Tales | acl:relcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 enabled | obj |
| 27 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 enabled | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 store | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 store | det |
| 30 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 store | amod |
| 31 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 store | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 story | punct |
| 33 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 add | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 India | case |
| 35 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 store | nmod |
| 36 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 37 granting | mark |
| 37 | granting | grant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 add | advcl |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 granting | obj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 use | det |
| 40 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 granting | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 one | case |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 use | nmod |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 collection | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 collection | nmod:poss |
| 45 | inedited | inedited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 collection | amod |
| 46 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 granting | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 tales | case |
| 48 | Baluchi | Baluchi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 tales | compound |
| 49 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 tales | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 folk | punct |
| 51 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 collection | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 obliging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | present · perfect · progressive | W. | with regard to Mrs. Kingscote's Tales of the Sun. M. Mr.; equally property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | enable | present · perfect | L. | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | infinitive | me not said here | to the published story store of India | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to store=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | publish | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | grant | gerund | me not said here | the use of one | me | Mr.'s inedited collection of Baluchi folk tales | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal use=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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