English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 55

Finally, I have to thank those by whose kindness in waiving their rights to some of these stories, I have been enabled to compile this book.

Who acts: I, kindness · What happens: thank, waive, enable, compile · To what, where: those, rights, I, book

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, kindness), 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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Finally	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 enabled	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 thank	mark
6	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 thank	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 kindness	case
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 kindness	nmod:poss
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thank	obl
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 waiving	mark
12	waiving	waive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kindness	acl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 rights	nmod:poss
14	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 waiving	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 some	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 waiving	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 stories	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 stories	det
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 some	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 enabled	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 enabled	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 enabled	aux:pass
24	enabled	enable	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	to	to	PART	_	26 compile	mark
26	compile	compile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 enabled	xcomp
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 book	det
28	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 compile	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 enabled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	I not said here	those	by kindness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	waive	gerund	kindness not said here	tales's rights	to some	tree rules
3	enable	present · perfect · passive		I		tree rules
4	compile	to-infinitive	I not said here	this book		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Product

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: «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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