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title: The earlier portion is a Cinderella tale (on which see the late Mr.… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The earlier portion is a Cinderella tale (on which see the late Mr. Ralston's article in _Nineteenth Century_, Nov. 1879, and Mr. Lang's treatment in his Perrault). Who acts: earlier portion, Cinderella tale, late Ralston, Lang. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Fair, Brown, 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIX. Fair, Brown, and Trembling., sentence 4

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The earlier portion is a Cinderella tale (on which see the late Mr. Ralston's article in \_Nineteenth Century\_, Nov. 1879, and Mr. Lang's treatment in his Perrault).

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**Who acts:** earlier portion, Cinderella tale, late Ralston, Lang · **What happens:** be, see, article, treat · **To what, where:** Cinderella tale, article, Perrault

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Fair, Brown, and Trembling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earlier portion, Cinderella tale, late Ralston, Lang), 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:pg7885:53:4
# text = The earlier portion is a Cinderella tale (on which see the late Mr. Ralston's article in _Nineteenth Century_, Nov. 1879, and Mr. Lang's treatment in his Perrault).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Ralston	Ralston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Century	Century	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Nov.	November	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
25	1879	1879	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:desc	_	_
29	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the earlier portion | a Cinderella tale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | a Cinderella tale | the late Ralston  Mr.'s article |  |  |  | in Nineteenth Century | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer article=Stimulus |
| 3 | **article** |  | the late Ralston  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom article «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **treat** |  | Lang  Mr. |  |  | Lang's Perrault |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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