--- title: But now that the poor child was shut up within the iron gates of the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But now that the poor child was shut up within the iron gates of the king of the mines, at the threshold of which lay the three-headed Cerberus, there seemed no possibility of her ever making her escape. Who acts: threshold, headed Cerberus, possibility, Proserpina. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/83/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/) / 83 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 83 But now that the poor child was shut up within the iron gates of the king of the mines, at the threshold of which lay the three-headed Cerberus, there seemed no possibility of her ever making her escape. **Who acts:** threshold, headed Cerberus, possibility, Proserpina · **What happens:** shut up, lie, seem, make, escape · **To what, where:** poor child, headed Cerberus, possibility, escape This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (threshold, headed Cerberus, possibility, Proserpina), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:22:83 # text = But now that the poor child was shut up within the iron gates of the king of the mines, at the threshold of which lay the three-headed Cerberus, there seemed no possibility of her ever making her escape. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 within within ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mines mine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 threshold threshold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 advcl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 headed headed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 Cerberus Cerberus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 36 det _ _ 36 possibility possibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 40 advmod _ _ 40 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 escape escape NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shut up** | past · passive | | the poor child | | | now | within the iron gates of the king of the mines | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **lie** | past | the threshold | the headed Cerberus | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cerberus=Theme | | 3 | **seem** | past | the headed Cerberus *not said here* | no possibility | | there | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme possibility=Attribute | | 4 | **make** | gerund | no possibility *not said here* | Proserpina's escape | | | ever | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product | | 5 | **escape** | | Proserpina | | | | | | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/84/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/)