Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 16

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 · What happens: pass, gather, grow, discern · To what, where: moon, bewilderment

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.

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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