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title: Jan's satisfaction with his wife's blunders is also European (Cosqui… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jan's satisfaction with his wife's blunders is also European (Cosquin, _l.c. Who acts: satisfaction, Jan, wife. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 11

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Jan's satisfaction with his wife's blunders is also European (Cosquin, \_l.c.

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**Who acts:** satisfaction, Jan, wife · **What happens:** be, satisfy, blunder

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (satisfaction, Jan, wife), 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:pg14241:36:11
# text = Jan's satisfaction with his wife's blunders is also European (Cosquin, _l.c.
1	Jan	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	blunders	blunder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	l.c	l.c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Jan's satisfaction with M.'s wife's blunders |  |  |  |  | Cosquin *obl*; european *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **satisfy** |  | Jan |  |  |  |  | with M.'s wife's blunders | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
| 3 | **blunder** |  | M.'s wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom blunder «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «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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