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title: _--In going over these various versions, the first and perhaps most… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--In going over these various versions, the first and perhaps most striking thing that comes out is the substantial agreement of the variants in each _language_. Who acts: thing, going. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, English Variants of Cinderella, with its dependency tr
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# More English Fairy Tales, English Variants of Cinderella, sentence 57

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\_--In going over these various versions, the first and perhaps most striking thing that comes out is the substantial agreement of the variants in each \_language\_.

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**Who acts:** thing, going · **What happens:** go, strike, come out, be · **To what, where:** various versions, thing, substantial agreement

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, English Variants of Cinderella. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, going), 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:pg14241:65:57
# text = _--In going over these various versions, the first and perhaps most striking thing that comes out is the substantial agreement of the variants in each _language_.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	substantial	substantial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | this various versions |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over version=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **strike** | gerund |  | thing |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 3 | **come out** | present | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | going | the substantial agreement |  |  |  | of the variants in each language | 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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