Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 24
When they read the fatal parchment, the scroll fell from their trembling hands.
Who acts: favour, scroll · What happens: read, fall · To what, where: fatal parchment, trembling hands
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (favour, scroll), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 read | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parchment | det |
| 5 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 parchment | amod |
| 6 | parchment | parchment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 scroll | det |
| 9 | scroll | scroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hands | compound |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | favour | the fatal parchment | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parchment=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the scroll | favour's trembling hands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=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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