Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 23
They burnt so fiercely, that in a little while the gate fell from the hinges.
Who acts: inhabitants, gate · What happens: burnt, fall · To what, where: hinges
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, gate), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 burnt | nsubj |
| 2 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 fiercely | advmod |
| 4 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 2 burnt | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 little | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 little | mark |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 little | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 burnt | conj |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 fell | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 burnt | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 hinges | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hinges | det |
| 16 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | fiercely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the gate | the hinges | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hinge=Initial_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: «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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