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title: "Are you sure, beautiful Medea," asked Jason, "quite sure, that the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Are you sure, beautiful Medea," asked Jason, "quite sure, that the unguent in the gold box will prove a remedy against those terrible burns?" Who acts: Jason, unguent. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 68

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"Are you sure, beautiful Medea," asked Jason, "quite sure, that the unguent in the gold box will prove a remedy against those terrible burns?"

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**Who acts:** Jason, unguent · **What happens:** be, ask, prove · **To what, where:** Jason, remedy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, unguent), 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:pg976:28:68
# text = "Are you sure, beautiful Medea," asked Jason, "quite sure, that the unguent in the gold box will prove a remedy against those terrible burns?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Medea	medea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	unguent	unguent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	remedy	remedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	burns	burn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Jason |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Jason |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jason=Recipient |
| 3 | **prove** *in a quote* | future | the unguent in the gold box | a remedy |  |  |  | against terrible burns | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme |

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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:** «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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