Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 47

I have again to congratulate myself on the co-operation of my friend Mr. J. D. Batten in giving beautiful or amusing form to the creations of the folk fancy of the Hindoos.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, congratulate, give, create, fancy · To what, where: myself, co-operation, beautiful form, creations, folk fancy, Hindoos

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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 have	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 congratulate	mark
5	congratulate	congratulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	xcomp
6	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 congratulate	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 co-operation	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 co-operation	det
9	co-operation	co-operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 congratulate	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 friend	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 co-operation	nmod
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 J.	nmod:desc
14	J.	J.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 friend	appos
15	D.	D.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 J.	flat
16	Batten	Batten	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 J.	flat
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 giving	mark
18	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 congratulate	advcl
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 form	amod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 amusing	cc
21	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beautiful	conj
22	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 giving	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 creations	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 creations	det
25	creations	creation	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 giving	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 fancy	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fancy	det
28	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fancy	compound
29	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 creations	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Hindoos	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Hindoos	det
32	Hindoos	Hindoo	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 fancy	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	I				again	tree rules
2	congratulate	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself		the co-operation of my friend		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
3	give	gerund	I not said here	beautiful form	the creations of the folk fancy of the Hindoos			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent form=Theme to creation=Recipient
4	create			the folk fancy of the Hindoos				nom creation «act transitive»: of=patient
5	fancy			the Hindoos				nom fancy «cognition 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: «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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