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title: Finally, I have to thank those by whose kindness in waiving their ri… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 55

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg7439:3:55
# text = 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.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	waiving	waive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	enabled	enable	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	compile	compile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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