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Rushen Coatie, sentence 2 \_--I have concocted this English, or rather Scotch, Cinderella from the various versions given in Miss Cox's remarkable collection of 345 variants of \_Cinderella\_ (Folk-Lore Society, 1892); see \_Parallels\_ for an enumeration of those occurring in the British Isles. **Who acts:** I, Cinderella · **What happens:** concoct, give, see, occur, vary, enumerate · **To what, where:** English, various versions, remarkable collection, Parallels, British Isles, those This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Cinderella), 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:pg14241:64:2 # text = _--I have concocted this English, or rather Scotch, Cinderella from the various versions given in Miss Cox's remarkable collection of 345 variants of _Cinderella_ (Folk-Lore Society, 1892); see _Parallels_ for an enumeration of those occurring in the British Isles. 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 -- -- PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 concocted concoct VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 rather rather ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 Scotch Scotch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Cinderella Cinderella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 versions version NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 18 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Cox Cox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 remarkable remarkable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 345 345 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 variants variant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Cinderella Cinderella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Lore Lore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Society Society PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 1892 1892 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 list _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 42 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Parallels parallel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 43 punct _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 enumeration enumeration NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 47 nmod _ _ 50 occurring occur VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 49 acl _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 Isles Isle PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **concoct** | present · perfect | I | this English or Scotch and Cinderella | | the various versions | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent english=Result from version=Material | | 2 | **give** | participle | | the various versions *not said here* | | Miss Cox's remarkable collection of 345 variants of Cinderella | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* | Parallels | | | | for a enumeration of those | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parallel=Stimulus | | 4 | **occur** | gerund | | | | the British Isles | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in isle=Location | | 5 | **vary** | | Cinderella | | | | | | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **enumerate** | | | those | | | | | nom enumeration «communication 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/3/) - ↑ back to [LXXIII. 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