Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 18

It looked into an interior garden, or court, set out with orange trees, in the midst of which was a marble fountain, surrounded by a grassy bank, enamelled with flowers.

Who acts: casement · What happens: look, set out, be, surround, enamell · To what, where: court, midst, marble fountain

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (casement), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 garden	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 garden	det
5	interior	interior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 garden	amod
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 court	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 court	cc
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
11	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 court	acl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 set	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 trees	case
14	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trees	amod
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 set	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 midst	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 midst	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 midst	det
19	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 fountain	obl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fountain	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fountain	det
24	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fountain	amod
25	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 midst	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 surrounded	punct
27	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fountain	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 bank	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bank	det
30	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bank	amod
31	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 surrounded	obl:agent
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 enamelled	punct
33	enamelled	enamell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fountain	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 flowers	case
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 enamelled	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	casement			into a interior garden; court parataxis	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into garden=Theme
2	set out	participle		court not said here	the midst	with orange trees	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		a marble fountain		of the midst	tree rules
4	surround	participle		a marble fountain not said here		a grassy bank obl:agent	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	enamell	participle				with flowers	tree rules

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 18