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title: The "Youngest-best" formula which occurs in Cinderella, and on which… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The "Youngest-best" formula which occurs in Cinderella, and on which Mr. Lang laid much stress in his treatment of the subject in his "Perrault" as a survival of the old tenure of "junior right," does not throw much light on the subject. Who acts: Youngest best formula, formula. A sentence of «More 
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# More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 74

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The "Youngest-best" formula which occurs in Cinderella, and on which Mr. Lang laid much stress in his treatment of the subject in his "Perrault" as a survival of the old tenure of "junior right," does not throw much light on the subject.

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**Who acts:** Youngest best formula, formula · **What happens:** occur, lay, not throw, treat, survive · **To what, where:** Cinderella, much stress, treatment, much light, subject, old tenure

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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 (Youngest best formula, formula), 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:pg14241:66:74
# text = The "Youngest-best" formula which occurs in Cinderella, and on which Mr. Lang laid much stress in his treatment of the subject in his "Perrault" as a survival of the old tenure of "junior right," does not throw much light on the subject.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	survival	survival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	tenure	tenure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	junior	junior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
45	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
48	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | the Youngest best formula |  |  | Cinderella |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cinderella=Location |
| 2 | **lay** | past | the Youngest best formula | much stress |  | formula's treatment of the subject |  | in formula's Perrault; as a survival of the old tenure of junior right | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent stress=Result as survival=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **throw** | present · do-support |  | much light |  | the subject |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme on subject=Destination |
| 4 | **treat** |  | formula | the subject |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 5 | **survive** |  |  | the old tenure of junior right |  |  |  |  | nom survival «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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