Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 16
When completed, it was a sweet rural bower, roofed overhead with an arch of living boughs.
Who acts: habitation · What happens: complete, be, roof · To what, where: sweet rural bower
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (habitation), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 completed | advmod |
| 2 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bower | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 completed | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bower | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bower | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bower | det |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bower | amod |
| 8 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bower | amod |
| 9 | bower | bower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 roofed | punct |
| 11 | roofed | roof | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bower | acl |
| 12 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 11 roofed | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 arch | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 arch | det |
| 15 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roofed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 boughs | case |
| 17 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boughs | amod |
| 18 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 arch | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | participle | habitation not said here | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | habitation | a sweet rural bower | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | roof | participle | a sweet rural bower not said here | with a arch of living boughs; overhead property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with arch=Theme |
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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