Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 14

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

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.

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	_	4 went	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 creeping	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 creeping	advmod
8	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 arch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 arch	det
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 arch	amod
12	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 creeping	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ascending	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 ascending	advmod
15	ascending	ascend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 flight	det
17	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ascending	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 steps	case
19	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flight	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 passage	punct
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 passage	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 passage	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 passage	nummod
24	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 passage	amod
25	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ascending	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 now	cc
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 passage	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 another	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 passage	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 door	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 door	case
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 door	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 door	det
34	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ascending	obl
35	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 door	acl
36	before	before	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 opening	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 banging	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 banging	cc
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 banging	expl
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 banging	nsubj
42	banging	bang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 went	advcl
43	behind	behind	ADV	_	42 banging	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 seemed	punct
45	until	until	SCONJ	_	48 seemed	mark
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 seemed	nsubj
47	really	really	ADV	_	48 seemed	advmod
48	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 banging	conj
49	as	as	ADP	_	52 walls	case
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 walls	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 walls	det
52	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 seemed	obl
53	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 walls	acl
54	round	round	ADV	_	53 spun	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 whirled	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 whirled	cc
57	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 whirled	obj
59	round	round	ADV	_	57 whirled	advmod
60	along	along	ADP	_	62 them	case
61	with	with	ADP	_	62 them	case
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 whirled	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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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