Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 78
It satisfies me that you are the very person whom the Speaking Oak has been talking about."
Who acts: fortune, you, Speaking Oak · What happens: satisfy, be, talk about · To what, where: me, person
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, you, Speaking Oak), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 satisfies | nsubj |
| 2 | satisfies | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 satisfies | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 person | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 person | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 person | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 person | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 person | advmod |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 satisfies | ccomp |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 talking | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Oak | det |
| 12 | Speaking | Speaking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Oak | compound |
| 13 | Oak | Oak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 talking | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 talking | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 talking | aux |
| 16 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 person | acl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 talking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 satisfies | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 satisfies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | present | fortune | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | the person | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk about | present · perfect · progressive | the Speaking Oak | the person | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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