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title: The wall seemed to have no door, nor any windows, but rose up, lofty… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The wall seemed to have no door, nor any windows, but rose up, lofty, and massive, and mysterious, and was neither to be clambered over, nor, as far as Theseus could perceive, to be passed through. Who acts: wall, Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 103

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The wall seemed to have no door, nor any windows, but rose up, lofty, and massive, and mysterious, and was neither to be clambered over, nor, as far as Theseus could perceive, to be passed through.

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**Who acts:** wall, Theseus · **What happens:** seem, have, rise up, be, perceive, pass through · **To what, where:** windows, door

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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 (wall, Theseus), 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:pg976:5:103
# text = The wall seemed to have no door, nor any windows, but rose up, lofty, and massive, and mysterious, and was neither to be clambered over, nor, as far as Theseus could perceive, to be passed through.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	clambered	clamber	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
31	over	over	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	40	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	as	as	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	_
45	through	through	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the wall | any windows |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the wall *not said here* | no door |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 3 | **rise up** | past | the wall *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lofty *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | clamber, neither, over *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **perceive** | could | Theseus |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **pass through** | to-infinitive · passive | Theseus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V» |

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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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