Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 74
She was revolving, in gloomy thought, the late disasters of her family, when she heard a mournful noise, like that of the sea breeze, moaning about the castle walls.
Who acts: Frandina · What happens: revolve, hear, moan · To what, where: gloomy thought, mournful noise
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 (Frandina), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 revolving | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 revolving | aux |
| 3 | revolving | revolve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 thought | case |
| 6 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | amod |
| 7 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 revolving | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 disasters | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 disasters | det |
| 10 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 disasters | amod |
| 11 | disasters | disaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 family | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disasters | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 heard | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 revolving | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 noise | det |
| 20 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 noise | amod |
| 21 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 that | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 that | case |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 heard | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 breeze | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 breeze | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 breeze | compound |
| 28 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 that | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 moaning | punct |
| 30 | moaning | moan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 heard | advcl |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 walls | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 walls | det |
| 33 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 walls | compound |
| 34 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 moaning | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 revolving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revolve | past · progressive | Frandina | gloomy thought and the late disasters of Frandina's family | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in thought=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Frandina | a mournful noise | that of the sea breeze obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | moan | gerund | Frandina not said here | about the castle walls | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about wall=Topic |
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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