--- title: Miss Roalfe Cox is about to publish for the Folk-Lore Society a whol… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Miss Roalfe Cox is about to publish for the Folk-Lore Society a whole volume of variants of the Cinderella group of stories, which are remarkably well represented in these isles, nearly a dozen different versions being known in England, Ireland, and Scotland. Who acts: Miss, Cinderella group. A sent --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/53/5/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [XIX. Fair, Brown, and Trembling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/53/) / 5 # Celtic Fairy Tales, XIX. Fair, Brown, and Trembling., sentence 5 Miss Roalfe Cox is about to publish for the Folk-Lore Society a whole volume of variants of the Cinderella group of stories, which are remarkably well represented in these isles, nearly a dozen different versions being known in England, Ireland, and Scotland. **Who acts:** Miss, Cinderella group · **What happens:** be, publish, represent, know, vary · **To what, where:** stories, dozen different versions, England 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 (Miss, Cinderella group), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:53:5 # text = Miss Roalfe Cox is about to publish for the Folk-Lore Society a whole volume of variants of the Cinderella group of stories, which are remarkably well represented in these isles, nearly a dozen different versions being known in England, Ireland, and Scotland. 1 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 Roalfe Roalfe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Cox Cox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 publish publish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 Folk Folk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Lore Lore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Society Society PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 volume volume NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 variants variant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Cinderella Cinderella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 28 remarkably remarkably ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 30 represented represent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 isles isle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 dozen dozen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 38 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 versions version NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 40 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Miss | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **publish** | to-infinitive | Miss *not said here* | | | | | for the Folk Lore Society and Scotland | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for society=Beneficiary | | 3 | **represent** | present · passive | | stories | | | | in this isles dozen different versions; remarkably, well *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in isle=Attribute | | 4 | **know** | gerund · passive | | dozen different versions *not said here* | | England and Ireland | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | | 5 | **vary** | | the Cinderella group of stories | | | | | | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/53/4/) - next →: [XX. 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