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title: But the welding of the Sea Maiden ending on to the Cinderella formul… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the welding of the Sea Maiden ending on to the Cinderella formula is clearly a later and inartistic junction, and implies rather imperfect assimilation of the Cinderella formula. Who acts: welding, ending, inartistic junction. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. C
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# More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 58

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But the welding of the Sea Maiden ending on to the Cinderella formula is clearly a later and inartistic junction, and implies rather imperfect assimilation of the Cinderella formula.

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**Who acts:** welding, ending, inartistic junction · **What happens:** end on, be, imply, weld, assimilate · **To what, where:** inartistic junction, imperfect assimilation, Sea Maiden, Cinderella formula

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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 (welding, ending, inartistic junction), 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:pg14241:66:58
# text = But the welding of the Sea Maiden ending on to the Cinderella formula is clearly a later and inartistic junction, and implies rather imperfect assimilation of the Cinderella formula.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	welding	welding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
15	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	inartistic	inartistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	junction	junction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	implies	imply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	imperfect	imperfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	assimilation	assimilation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end on** | gerund | the welding of the Sea Maiden |  |  |  |  | to the Cinderella formula | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | ending | a inartistic junction |  |  |  | clearly, late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **imply** | present | a inartistic junction *not said here* | imperfect assimilation of the Cinderella formula |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot assimilation=Topic |
| 4 | **weld** |  |  | the Sea Maiden |  |  |  |  | nom welding «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **assimilate** |  |  | the Cinderella formula |  |  |  |  | nom assimilation «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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