--- title: In a very short time, they had passed the great gateway (leaving the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In a very short time, they had passed the great gateway (leaving the three-headed Cerberus, barking, and yelping, and growling, with threefold din, behind them), and emerged upon the surface of the earth. Who acts: great gateway. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegrana --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/33/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/) / 33 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 33 In a very short time, they had passed the great gateway (leaving the three-headed Cerberus, barking, and yelping, and growling, with threefold din, behind them), and emerged upon the surface of the earth. **Who acts:** great gateway · **What happens:** pass, leave, bark, yelp, growl, emerge · **To what, where:** things, headed Cerberus, surface This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great gateway), 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:pg976:24:33 # text = In a very short time, they had passed the great gateway (leaving the three-headed Cerberus, barking, and yelping, and growling, with threefold din, behind them), and emerged upon the surface of the earth. 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 gateway gateway NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 leaving leave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 headed headed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Cerberus Cerberus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 barking bark VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 yelping yelp VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 growling growl VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 threefold threefold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 din din NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 behind behind ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 emerged emerge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 39 upon upon ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive | | things *= thing* | | | time | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient gateway=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | gerund | the great gateway *not said here* | the headed Cerberus | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent cerberus=Theme they=Attribute | | 3 | **bark** | gerund | the great gateway *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **yelp** | gerund | the great gateway *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **growl** | gerund | the great gateway *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **emerge** | past | | | | the surface of the earth | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon surface=Location | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/34/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/)