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title: _--The beginning is _à la_ Cupid and Psyche, on which Mr. Lang's mon… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The beginning is _à la_ Cupid and Psyche, on which Mr. Lang's monograph in the Carabas series is the classic authority. Who acts: beginning. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, L. the Three Feathers, sentence 4

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\_--The beginning is \_à la\_ Cupid and Psyche, on which Mr. Lang's monograph in the Carabas series is the classic authority.

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**Who acts:** beginning · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** classic authority

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beginning), 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:pg14241:41:4
# text = _--The beginning is _à la_ Cupid and Psyche, on which Mr. Lang's monograph in the Carabas series is the classic authority.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	à	à	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat:foreign	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Psyche	Psyche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	monograph	monograph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	classic	classic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the beginning | the classic authority |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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