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title: I have again to congratulate myself on the co-operation of my friend… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 47

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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.

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

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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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**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:pg7128:3:47
# text = 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.
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	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	congratulate	congratulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	co-operation	co-operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	Batten	Batten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	creations	creation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Hindoos	Hindoo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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.

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**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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