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title: O, indeed, I can assure you, there was a vast deal of human sympathy… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: O, indeed, I can assure you, there was a vast deal of human sympathy running along that slender thread of silk. Who acts: I, human sympathy. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 19

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O, indeed, I can assure you, there was a vast deal of human sympathy running along that slender thread of silk.

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**Who acts:** I, human sympathy · **What happens:** assure, be, run · **To what, where:** you, vast deal, slender thread

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (I, human sympathy), 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:pg976:6:19
# text = O, indeed, I can assure you, there was a vast deal of human sympathy running along that slender thread of silk.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	assure	assure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	along	along	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | can | I |  | you |  |  | indeed *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a vast deal |  |  |  | of human sympathy | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | human sympathy *not said here* |  |  | that slender thread of silk |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along thread=Trajectory |

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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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