Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 36

It gives me great delight to see one of his scholars at my court.

Who acts: body · What happens: give, see · To what, where: great delight, me, one

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body), 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 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	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 gives	iobj
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 delight	amod
5	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 delight	acl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 see	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 scholars	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 scholars	nmod:poss
11	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 court	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 court	nmod:poss
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scholars	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	body	great delight	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient delight=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	body not said here	one of horse's scholars at my court					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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