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title: But still he went on, now creeping through a low arch, now ascending… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But still he went on, now creeping through a low arch, now ascending a flight of steps, now in one crooked passage and now in another, with here a door opening before him, and there one banging behind, until it really seemed as if the walls spun round, and whirled him round along with them. Who acts
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 14

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But still he went on, now creeping through a low arch, now ascending a flight of steps, now in one crooked passage and now in another, with here a door opening before him, and there one banging behind, until it really seemed as if the walls spun round, and whirled him round along with them.

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**Who acts:** head, door, one, it · **What happens:** go on, creep, ascend, open, bang, seem · **To what, where:** low arch, flight, walls, head

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, door, one, it), 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:pg976:6:14
# text = But still he went on, now creeping through a low arch, now ascending a flight of steps, now in one crooked passage and now in another, with here a door opening before him, and there one banging behind, until it really seemed as if the walls spun round, and whirled him round along with them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
35	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
36	before	before	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	42	expl	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nsubj	_	_
42	banging	bang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
43	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	really	really	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
53	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	_
54	round	round	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	round	round	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
60	along	along	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | head |  |  |  | still |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund | head *not said here* |  |  | a low arch | now |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through arch=Trajectory |
| 3 | **ascend** | gerund | head *not said here* | a flight of steps |  |  | now | with a door | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flight=Trajectory |
| 4 | **open** | gerund | a door *not said here* |  |  |  | before head |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
| 5 | **bang** | gerund | one |  |  | there |  | behind *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  | as the walls | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **spin round** | participle |  | the walls *not said here* |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **whirl** | past | head *not said here* | head |  |  |  | along steps *= step*; round *property* | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme along they=Destination |

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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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