More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 69
But does this find necessarily prove an original Celtic origin for Cinderella?
Who acts: this · What happens: find, prove · To what, where: original Celtic origin
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 (this), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 find | cc |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | necessarily | necessarily | ADV | _ | 6 prove | advmod |
| 6 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 find | xcomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 origin | det |
| 8 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 origin | amod |
| 9 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 origin | amod |
| 10 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prove | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Cinderella | case |
| 12 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 origin | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · do-support | this | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | prove | infinitive | this not said here | a original Celtic origin | for Cinderella; necessarily property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Theme |
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: «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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