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title: After going a good way through this obscurity, they reached a high m… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After going a good way through this obscurity, they reached a high marble wall, which was overgrown with creeping plants, that made it shaggy with their verdure. Who acts: guards, creeping plants. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with its dependency tre
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 102

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After going a good way through this obscurity, they reached a high marble wall, which was overgrown with creeping plants, that made it shaggy with their verdure.

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**Who acts:** guards, creeping plants · **What happens:** go, reach, overgrow, creep, make · **To what, where:** good way, obscurity, high marble wall, wall

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (guards, creeping plants), 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:pg976:5:102
# text = After going a good way through this obscurity, they reached a high marble wall, which was overgrown with creeping plants, that made it shaggy with their verdure.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	verdure	verdure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | guards *= guard* *not said here* | a good way |  | this obscurity |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through obscurity=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **reach** | past | guards *= guard* | a high marble wall |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wall=Theme |
| 3 | **overgrow** | past · passive |  | a high marble wall |  |  |  | with creeping plants | tree rules |
| 4 | **creep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | creeping plants | wall |  |  |  | shaggy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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