Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 83

But now that the poor child was shut up within the iron gates of the king of the mines, at the threshold of which lay the three-headed Cerberus, there seemed no possibility of her ever making her escape.

Who acts: threshold, headed Cerberus, possibility, Proserpina · What happens: shut up, lie, seem, make, escape · To what, where: poor child, headed Cerberus, possibility, escape

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (threshold, headed Cerberus, possibility, Proserpina), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 shut	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 shut	advmod
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 shut	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shut	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shut	aux:pass
8	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 shut	compound:prt
10	within	within	ADP	_	13 gates	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gates	det
12	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gates	compound
13	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shut	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 king	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gates	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mines	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mines	det
19	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 king	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 threshold	punct
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 threshold	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 threshold	det
23	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shut	advcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 threshold	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Cerberus	det
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 headed	nummod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 three	punct
30	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Cerberus	amod
31	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 lay	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seemed	punct
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 seemed	expl
34	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 Cerberus	acl:relcl
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 possibility	det
36	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seemed	obj
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 making	mark
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 making	nmod:poss
39	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 making	advmod
40	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 possibility	acl
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 escape	nmod:poss
42	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 making	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	past · passive		the poor child		now	within the iron gates of the king of the mines	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	lie	past	the threshold	the headed Cerberus				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cerberus=Theme
3	seem	past	the headed Cerberus not said here	no possibility	there			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme possibility=Attribute
4	make	gerund	no possibility not said here	Proserpina's escape		ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product
5	escape		Proserpina					nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

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