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title: My young friend was willing, in short, that the fresh verdure of his… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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 summ
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 38

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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.

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

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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 (young friend, fresh verdure, I, verdure), 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:pg976:2:38
# text = 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.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	verdure	verdure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	straggling	straggling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
34	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	leafiness	leafiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	fruitage	fruitage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	over	over	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
51	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	amod	_	_
54	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	rafters	rafter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
59	rustic	rustic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
60	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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