Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 20

While they were regarding this mysterious scene of ancient worship or incantation, one of the statues fell, with a noise that echoed through the cavern, and smote the hearts of the adventurers with terror.

Who acts: table, one, noise · What happens: regard, fall, echo, smote · To what, where: cavern, hearts

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (table, one, noise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 regarding	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 regarding	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 regarding	aux
4	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 scene	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 scene	det
6	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scene	amod
7	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 worship	case
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 worship	amod
10	worship	worship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scene	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 incantation	cc
12	incantation	incantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worship	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 fell	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 statues	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 statues	det
17	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fell	obl
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 noise	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 noise	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 noise	det
22	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 echoed	nsubj
24	echoed	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 noise	acl:relcl
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 cavern	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cavern	det
27	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 echoed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 smote	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 smote	cc
30	smote	smote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fell	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hearts	det
32	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 smote	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 adventurers	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 adventurers	det
35	adventurers	adventurer	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hearts	nmod
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 terror	case
37	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 adventurers	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	regard	past · progressive	table				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	one			regard this mysterious scene of ancient worship or incantation; of the statues; with a noise	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of statue=Initial_Location
3	echo	past	a noise		the cavern		vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cavern=Location
4	smote	infinitive	one not said here	the hearts of the adventurers with terror			tree rules

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: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 20