Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 38

My young friend was willing, in short, that the fresh verdure of his growing reputation should spread over my straggling and half-naked boughs; even as I have sometimes thought of training a vine, with its broad leafiness, and purple fruitage, over the worm-eaten posts and rafters of the rustic summer house.

Who acts: young friend, fresh verdure, I, verdure · What happens: be, grow, spread, think, eat, repute · To what, where: straggling, vine

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young friend, fresh verdure, I, verdure), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 willing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 willing	cop
5	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 short	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 short	case
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 willing	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spread	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 spread	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 verdure	det
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 verdure	amod
13	verdure	verdure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spread	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 reputation	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 reputation	nmod:poss
16	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 reputation	amod
17	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 verdure	nmod
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 spread	aux
19	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 willing	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 straggling	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 straggling	nmod:poss
22	straggling	straggling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spread	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 boughs	cc
24	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	27 boughs	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 half	punct
26	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 boughs	amod
27	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 straggling	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
29	even	even	ADV	_	34 thought	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 thought	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 thought	aux
33	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 thought	advmod
34	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 spread	advcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 training	case
36	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thought	obl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 vine	det
38	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thought	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 leafiness	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	43 leafiness	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 leafiness	nmod:poss
42	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 leafiness	amod
43	leafiness	leafiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thought	ccomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fruitage	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fruitage	cc
46	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 fruitage	amod
47	fruitage	fruitage	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 leafiness	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 posts	punct
49	over	over	ADP	_	54 posts	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 posts	det
51	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 eaten	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 worm	punct
53	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 posts	amod
54	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 thought	conj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 rafters	cc
56	rafters	rafter	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 posts	conj
57	of	of	ADP	_	61 house	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 house	det
59	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 house	amod
60	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 house	compound
61	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 posts	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	My young friend			willing property	tree rules
2	be		My young friend not said here				tree rules
3	grow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spread	should	the fresh verdure of verdure's growing reputation		my straggling and half naked boughs		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over straggling=Location
5	think speech: other	present · perfect	I	a vine		of training; sometimes property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot vine=Theme
6	eat	participle					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	repute		verdure				nom reputation «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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