--- title: Mr. Nutt, who kindly abridged it for me, writes, "Nothing in the sha… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [LII. Tom Hickathrift](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/) / 4 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:43:4 # text = 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. 1 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Nutt Nutt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 abridged abridge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 incident incident NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 omitted omit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 obj _ _ 29 rewriting rewrite VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 conj _ _ 36 rendered render VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 37 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 process process NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 abridgment abridgment NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/5/) - ↑ back to [LII. 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