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title: To determine the question of origin we must turn to the purer type g… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To determine the question of origin we must turn to the purer type given by the other two Celtic versions. Who acts: we. 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 59

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To determine the question of origin we must turn to the purer type given by the other two Celtic versions.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** determine, turn, give, question · **To what, where:** question, purer type, origin

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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 (we), 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:pg14241:66:59
# text = To determine the question of origin we must turn to the purer type given by the other two Celtic versions.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	determine	determine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	purer	pure	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the question of origin |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic |
| 2 | **turn** | must | we |  |  | the purer type |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to type=Trajectory |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  | the purer type *not said here* |  |  |  | by the other two Celtic versions | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **question** |  |  | origin |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication 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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