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title: It is full of suggestiveness, and, in its way, is as good as a cathe… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is full of suggestiveness, and, in its way, is as good as a cathedral. Who acts: thing. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 16

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It is full of suggestiveness, and, in its way, is as good as a cathedral.

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**Who acts:** thing · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** way

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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 (thing), 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:pg976:2:16
# text = It is full of suggestiveness, and, in its way, is as good as a cathedral.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	suggestiveness	suggestiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | thing |  |  |  |  | of suggestiveness; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | thing *not said here* |  |  | thing's way |  | as a cathedral; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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