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title: When completed, it was a sweet rural bower, roofed overhead with an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When completed, it was a sweet rural bower, roofed overhead with an arch of living boughs. Who acts: habitation. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 16

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When completed, it was a sweet rural bower, roofed overhead with an arch of living boughs.

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**Who acts:** habitation · **What happens:** complete, be, roof · **To what, where:** sweet rural bower

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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.

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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:pg976:11:16
# text = When completed, it was a sweet rural bower, roofed overhead with an arch of living boughs.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bower	bower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	roofed	roof	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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