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title: His chief reason appears to be the earlier appearance of Catskin in… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His chief reason appears to be the earlier appearance of Catskin in Straparola,[4] 1550, a hundred years earlier than Cinderella in Basile, 1636. Who acts: chief reason. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 28

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His chief reason appears to be the earlier appearance of Catskin in Straparola,\[4\] 1550, a hundred years earlier than Cinderella in Basile, 1636.

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**Who acts:** chief reason · **What happens:** appear, be · **To what, where:** earlier appearance

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief reason), 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:pg14241:76:28
# text = His chief reason appears to be the earlier appearance of Catskin in Straparola,[4] 1550, a hundred years earlier than Cinderella in Basile, 1636.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Straparola	Straparola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	1550	1550	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Basile	Basile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	1636	1636	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | Mr.'s chief reason |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Mr.'s chief reason *not said here* | the earlier appearance |  |  |  | of Catskin in Straparola | 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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