--- title: W. H. Allen have been equally obliging with regard to Mrs. Kingscote… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tale --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/46/) [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/) / 46 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:3:46 # text = 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. 1 W. W. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 H. H. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Allen Allen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux _ _ 6 equally equally ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 obliging oblige VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 regard regard NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 Mrs. Mrs. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Kingscote Kingscote PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Tales Tale PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Sun. Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 20 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:desc _ _ 21 M. M. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 22 L. L. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 Dames Dames PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 24 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 enabled enable VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 acl:relcl _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 published publish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 31 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 store store NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 by by SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 granting grant VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nmod _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 inedited inedited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 Baluchi Baluchi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 49 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/47/) - ↑ back to [Joseph Jacobs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/)