Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 33
One day when she was walking with her parents in the garden of their palace, she entered a tower, and, having barred the door, ascended to the battlements.
Who acts: presence · What happens: walk, enter, bar, ascend · To what, where: garden, tower, door, battlements
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (presence), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 walking | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 walking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walking | aux |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 parents | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 parents | nmod:poss |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walking | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walking | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 garden | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 entered | nsubj |
| 18 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tower | det |
| 20 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entered | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 barred | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 barred | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 barred | aux |
| 25 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 entered | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 door | det |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 barred | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ascended | punct |
| 29 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 barred | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 battlements | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 battlements | det |
| 32 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 ascended | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | presence | the garden of parents's palace | with presence's parents | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | enter | past | presence | a tower | day | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tower=Destination | |||
| 3 | bar | gerund · perfect | presence not said here | the door | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ascend | participle | presence not said here | the battlements | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to battlement=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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