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title: As he passed onward, the clouds gathered over the moon, and the laby… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As he passed onward, the clouds gathered over the moon, and the labyrinth grew so dusky that Theseus could no longer discern the bewilderment through which he was passing. Who acts: monster, clouds, labyrinth, Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, w
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 16

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As he passed onward, the clouds gathered over the moon, and the labyrinth grew so dusky that Theseus could no longer discern the bewilderment through which he was passing.

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**Who acts:** monster, clouds, labyrinth, Theseus · **What happens:** pass, gather, grow, discern · **To what, where:** moon, bewilderment

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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 (monster, clouds, labyrinth, 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:pg976:6:16
# text = As he passed onward, the clouds gathered over the moon, and the labyrinth grew so dusky that Theseus could no longer discern the bewilderment through which he was passing.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	no	no	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	discern	discern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bewilderment	bewilderment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | monster |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | past | the clouds |  |  | the moon |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the labyrinth |  |  |  |  | dusky *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **discern** | could | Theseus | the bewilderment |  |  |  | long *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bewilderment=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pass** | past · progressive | monster |  |  | the bewilderment |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location |

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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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