---
title: The whole story is a version of the numerous class of Cinderella sto… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole story is a version of the numerous class of Cinderella stories, the particular variety being the Catskin sub-species analogous to Perrault's _Peau d'Ane_. Who acts: whole story, Catskin. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Cap O' Rushes., with its dependency tree and 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [XI. Cap O' Rushes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/) / 4

# English Fairy Tales, XI. Cap O' Rushes., sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The whole story is a version of the numerous class of Cinderella stories, the particular variety being the Catskin sub-species analogous to Perrault's \_Peau d'Ane\_.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** whole story, Catskin · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** version

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Cap O' Rushes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole story, Catskin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7439:61:4
# text = The whole story is a version of the numerous class of Cinderella stories, the particular variety being the Catskin sub-species analogous to Perrault's _Peau d'Ane_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sub-species	sub-specy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
22	analogous	analogous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Peau	Peau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	d'Ane	d'ane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the whole story | a version |  |  |  | of the numerous class of Cinderella stories | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | the Catskin | a version *not said here* |  |  |  | to Perrault's \_ d'Ane; the particular variety *obl*; analogous, sub-specy *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/3/)
- next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/5/)
- ↑ back to [XI. Cap O' Rushes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/61/)