Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 102

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 · What happens: go, reach, overgrow, creep, make · To what, where: good way, obscurity, high marble wall, wall

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.

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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 going	mark
2	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 reached	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	obl:unmarked
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 obscurity	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 obscurity	det
8	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 going	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wall	det
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wall	amod
14	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wall	compound
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 overgrown	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 overgrown	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 overgrown	aux:pass
19	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wall	acl:relcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 plants	case
21	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 plants	amod
22	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 overgrown	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 made	nsubj
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 plants	acl:relcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	obj
27	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 made	xcomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 verdure	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 verdure	nmod:poss
30	verdure	verdure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shaggy	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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