Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 10

They were arranged with marvellous cunning, so as to represent battles and warlike deeds of times and heroes long since passed away; and the whole surface was so admirably polished that the stones were as lustrous as glass, and reflected the rays of the sun with such resplendent brightness as to dazzle all beholders.

Who acts: whole surface, stones · What happens: arrange, represent, pass away, be, reflect, dazzle · To what, where: marbles, battles, rays, beholders, sun

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole surface, stones), 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	3 arranged	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arranged	aux:pass
3	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cunning	case
5	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cunning	amod
6	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arranged	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 represent	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 represent	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 represent	mark
10	to	to	PART	_	11 represent	mark
11	represent	represent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 arranged	parataxis
12	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 represent	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 deeds	cc
14	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deeds	amod
15	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 battles	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 times	case
17	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deeds	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heroes	cc
19	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 battles	conj
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 represent	advmod
21	since	since	SCONJ	_	22 passed	mark
22	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 represent	advcl
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 passed	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 and	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 arranged	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 surface	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 surface	amod
28	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 and	appos
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 polished	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 polished	advmod
31	admirably	admirably	ADV	_	32 polished	advmod
32	polished	polish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 surface	acl:relcl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 lustrous	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stones	det
35	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 lustrous	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 lustrous	cop
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 lustrous	advmod
38	lustrous	lustrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 polished	advcl
39	as	as	ADP	_	40 glass	case
40	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lustrous	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 reflected	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 reflected	cc
43	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 polished	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rays	det
45	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 reflected	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 sun	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sun	det
48	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rays	nmod
49	with	with	ADP	_	52 brightness	case
50	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 brightness	amod
51	resplendent	resplendent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 brightness	amod
52	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 reflected	obl
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 dazzle	mark
54	to	to	PART	_	55 dazzle	mark
55	dazzle	dazzle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 reflected	advcl
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	57 beholders	det
57	beholders	beholder	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 dazzle	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arrange	past · passive		marbles = marble	with marvellous cunning	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with cunning=Instrument
2	represent	to-infinitive		battles and warlike deeds of times and heroes	long property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot battle=Theme
3	pass away	participle			away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	the whole surface not said here		admirably, polish property	tree rules
5	is	past	the stones		as glass; lustrous property	tree rules
6	reflect	past	the whole surface not said here	the rays of the sun	with such resplendent brightness	tree rules
7	dazzle	to-infinitive	the whole surface not said here	all beholders		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus beholder=Experiencer
8	ray			the sun		nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 10