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Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 27

Fancying his pursuer at his heels, he took no heed of the obscurity or coldness of the cave, but kept groping and blundering forward, until he came forth at three leagues distance from the city.

Who acts: several · What happens: fancy, take, keep, grope, blunder, come · To what, where: pursuer, heels, heed, obscurity

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 (several), 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

advclnmod:possobjcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjdetobjcasedetnmodccconjcasedetnmodpunctccconjxcompccconjadvmodpunctmarknsubjconjadvmodcasenummodcompoundoblcasedetnmodpunctrootFancyingVERBhisPRONpursuerNOUNatADPhisPRONheelsNOUN,PUNCThePRONtookVERBnoDETheedNOUNofADPtheDETobscurityNOUNorCCONJcoldnessNOUNofADPtheDETcaveNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJkeptVERBgropingVERBandCCONJblunderingVERBforwardADV,PUNCTuntilSCONJhePRONcameVERBforthADVatADPthreeNUMleaguesNOUNdistanceNOUNfromADPtheDETcityNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FancyingfancyVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 tookadvcl
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 pursuernmod:poss
3pursuerpursuerNOUNNumber=Sing1 Fancyingobj
4atatADP_6 heelscase
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 heelsnmod:poss
6heelsheelNOUNNumber=Plur1 Fancyingobl
7,,PUNCT_1 Fancyingpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 tooknsubj
9tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10nonoDETPronType=Neg11 heeddet
11heedheedNOUNNumber=Sing9 tookobj
12ofofADP_14 obscuritycase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 obscuritydet
14obscurityobscurityNOUNNumber=Sing11 heednmod
15ororCCONJ_16 coldnesscc
16coldnesscoldnessNOUNNumber=Sing14 obscurityconj
17ofofADP_19 cavecase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 cavedet
19cavecaveNOUNNumber=Sing16 coldnessnmod
20,,PUNCT_22 keptpunct
21butbutCCONJ_22 keptcc
22keptkeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 tookconj
23gropinggropeVERBVerbForm=Ger22 keptxcomp
24andandCCONJ_25 blunderingcc
25blunderingblunderVERBVerbForm=Ger23 gropingconj
26forwardforwardADV_25 blunderingadvmod
27,,PUNCT_30 camepunct
28untiluntilSCONJ_30 camemark
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 camensubj
30camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 tookconj
31forthforthADV_30 cameadvmod
32atatADP_35 distancecase
33threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card34 leaguesnummod
34leaguesleagueNOUNNumber=Plur35 distancecompound
35distancedistanceNOUNNumber=Sing30 cameobl
36fromfromADP_38 citycase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 citydet
38citycityNOUNNumber=Sing35 distancenmod
39..PUNCT_9 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fancygerundseveral not said hereseveral's pursuerseveral's heelsvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pursuer=Stimulus
2takepastseveralno heed of the obscurity or coldness of the cavevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
3keeppastseveral not said heretree rules
4gropegerundseveral not said herevn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5blundergerundseveral not said hereforward propertytree rules
6comepastseveralat leagues distance from the city; forth propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location
7heedthe obscurity or coldness of the cavenom heed «cognition transitive»: of=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: «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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