Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 87

So he kept himself awake, and paced to and fro across the gloomy dungeon in which they were shut up.

Who acts: way · What happens: keep, pace, fro, shut up · To what, where: way, gloomy dungeon, maidens

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 (way), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 kept	obj
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kept	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 paced	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 paced	cc
8	paced	pace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kept	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 paced	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fro	cc
11	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 paced	conj
12	across	across	ADP	_	15 dungeon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dungeon	det
14	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dungeon	amod
15	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fro	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 shut	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shut	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shut	aux:pass
20	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 dungeon	acl:relcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 shut	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	way	way		awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	pace	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fro	infinitive			the gloomy dungeon		tree rules
4	shut up	past · passive		maidens = maiden	the gloomy dungeon		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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