Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 17

Inside there were two pleasant rooms, one of which had a soft heap of moss for a bed, while the other was furnished with a rustic seat or two, curiously fashioned out of the crooked roots of trees.

Who acts: two pleasant rooms · What happens: be, have, furnish · To what, where: soft heap, other

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 (two pleasant rooms), 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	Inside	inside	ADV	_	3 were	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 rooms	nummod
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rooms	amod
6	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 rooms	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 heap	det
13	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 heap	amod
14	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 moss	case
16	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heap	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bed	det
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heap	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 furnished	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 furnished	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 furnished	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 furnished	aux:pass
25	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 were	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 seat	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 seat	det
28	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 seat	amod
29	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 furnished	obl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 two	cc
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 seat	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fashioned	punct
33	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	34 fashioned	advmod
34	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 seat	amod
35	out	out	ADP	_	39 roots	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 roots	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 roots	det
38	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 roots	amod
39	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fashioned	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 trees	case
41	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 roots	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	two pleasant rooms		there	inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past		a soft heap of moss		for a bed	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Patient
3	furnish	past · passive		the other		with a rustic seat	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with seat=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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