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title: So rich and beautiful they were, that, if the shrubs grew wild here,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So rich and beautiful they were, that, if the shrubs grew wild here, and were native in the soil, then this island was surely the flower garden of the whole earth; or, if transplanted from some other clime, it must have been from the Happy Islands that lay towards the golden sunset. Who acts: flower
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 11

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So rich and beautiful they were, that, if the shrubs grew wild here, and were native in the soil, then this island was surely the flower garden of the whole earth; or, if transplanted from some other clime, it must have been from the Happy Islands that lay towards the golden sunset.

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**Who acts:** flowers, that, island, Happy Islands · **What happens:** be, grow, transplant, have, lay · **To what, where:** that, soil, flower garden, other clime

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (flowers, that, island, Happy Islands), 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:pg976:16:11
# text = So rich and beautiful they were, that, if the shrubs grew wild here, and were native in the soil, then this island was surely the flower garden of the whole earth; or, if transplanted from some other clime, it must have been from the Happy Islands that lay towards the golden sunset.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	transplanted	transplant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
43	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	clime	clime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	obl	_	_
48	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	48	xcomp	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	Islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
55	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
56	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | flowers *= flower* | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | that |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | that *not said here* |  |  | the soil |  | native *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this island | the flower garden |  |  | then | of the whole earth; surely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **transplant** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | that *not said here* |  |  | some other clime |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **lay** | present | the Happy Islands |  |  |  | sunset |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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