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title: I have attempted in my version to reconstruct the "English" Cinderel… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have attempted in my version to reconstruct the "English" Cinderella according to these formulæ. Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 51

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I have attempted in my version to reconstruct the "English" Cinderella according to these formulæ.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** attempt, reconstruct, accord · **To what, where:** version, English Cinderella

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg14241:66:51
# text = I have attempted in my version to reconstruct the "English" Cinderella according to these formulæ.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	reconstruct	reconstruct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Cinderella	cinderella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	formulæ	formulæ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | present · perfect | I |  |  | my version |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reconstruct** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the English Cinderella |  |  |  | accord this formulæ | tree rules |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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