--- title: Nor can I close these remarks without a word of thanks and praise to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Nor can I close these remarks without a word of thanks and praise to the artistic skill with which my friend, Mr. J. D. Batten, has made the romance and humour of these stories live again in the brilliant designs with which he has adorned these pages. Who acts: I, romance, remark. 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Batten, has made the romance and humour of these stories live again in the brilliant designs with which he has adorned these pages. **Who acts:** I, romance, remark · **What happens:** close, make, live, adorn, word, humour · **To what, where:** remarks, artistic skill, friend, brilliant designs, pages, thanks 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, romance, remark), 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:pg7439:3:60 # text = Nor can I close these remarks without a word of thanks and praise to the artistic skill with which my friend, Mr. J. D. Batten, has made the romance and humour of these stories live again in the brilliant designs with which he has adorned these pages. 1 Nor nor INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 remarks remark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 without without ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 artistic artistic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obl _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:desc _ _ 24 J. J. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 25 D. D. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 26 Batten Batten PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 28 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl:relcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 romance romance NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 humour humour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 38 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 designs design NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obl _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 adorned adorn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 acl:relcl _ _ 48 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 49 det _ _ 49 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | can | I | this remarks | the artistic skill | | | without a word of thanks and praise | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent remark=Patient to skill=Recipient | | 2 | **make** | present · perfect · passive | | my friend | | | | with the artistic skill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **live** | present | the romance and humour of this stories | | | the brilliant designs | again | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in design=Location | | 4 | **adorn** | present · perfect | remark | this pages | | | | with the brilliant designs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent page=Destination with which=Theme | | 5 | **word** | | | thanks and praise | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **humour** | | | this stories | | | | | nom humour «feeling 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/3/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/3/61/) - ↑ back to [\_to My Dear Little May\_](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/3/)