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title: It remains to be proved that this introductory part of the story wit… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It remains to be proved that this introductory part of the story with helpful animal was necessarily part of the original. Who acts: find, introductory part. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 71

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It remains to be proved that this introductory part of the story with helpful animal was necessarily part of the original.

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**Who acts:** find, introductory part · **What happens:** remain, prove, be · **To what, where:** part

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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 (find, introductory part), 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:pg14241:66:71
# text = It remains to be proved that this introductory part of the story with helpful animal was necessarily part of the original.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	introductory	introductory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | find |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive · passive | find *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this introductory part of the story with helpful animal | part |  |  |  | of the original; necessarily *property* | 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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