--- title: I have especially to thank Miss Frere, who kindly made an exception… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I have especially to thank Miss Frere, who kindly made an exception in my favour, and granted me the use of that fine story, "Punchkin," and that quaint myth, "How Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to Dinner." Who acts: I, Miss, Sun, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/42/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Joseph Jacobs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/) / 42 # Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 42 I have especially to thank Miss Frere, who kindly made an exception in my favour, and granted me the use of that fine story, "Punchkin," and that quaint myth, "How Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to Dinner." **Who acts:** I, Miss, Sun, my · **What happens:** have, thank, make, grant, go out, favour · **To what, where:** Miss, exception, favour, use, me, Dinner · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Miss, Sun, my), 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:pg7128:3:42 # text = I have especially to thank Miss Frere, who kindly made an exception in my favour, and granted me the use of that fine story, "Punchkin," and that quaint myth, "How Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to Dinner." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 especially especially ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 thank thank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 Frere Frere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 exception exception NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 granted grant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 25 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Punchkin Punchkin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 34 quaint quaint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 39 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 46 out out ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Dinner Dinner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | Miss | | | especially *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miss=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past | Miss | a exception | | my favour | | kindly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exception=Product | | 4 | **grant** | past | | the use of that fine story and that quaint myth | me | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal use=Theme | | 5 | **go out** *in a quote* | past | Sun and Moon | | Dinner | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **favour** | | my | | | | | | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **use** | | | that fine story | | | | | nom use «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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/43/) - ↑ back to [Joseph Jacobs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/)