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title: Inside there were two pleasant rooms, one of which had a soft heap o… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Te
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 17

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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.

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

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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 (two pleasant rooms), 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:pg976:11:17
# text = 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.
1	Inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	rustic	rustic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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