Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 15
On either side of the portal stood the two ancient guardians of the tower, laden with the keys appertaining to the locks.
Who acts: keys · What happens: stand, lade, appertain · To what, where: two ancient guardians, side
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 (keys), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 portal | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 portal | det |
| 6 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 guardians | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 guardians | nummod |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 guardians | amod |
| 11 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tower | det |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guardians | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laden | punct |
| 16 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 guardians | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 keys | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 keys | det |
| 19 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 laden | obl |
| 20 | appertaining | appertain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 keys | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 locks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 locks | det |
| 23 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 appertaining | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the two ancient guardians of the tower | either side of the portal | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guardian=Theme on side=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | the two ancient guardians of the tower not said here | with the keys | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | appertain | gerund | the keys not said here | to the locks | 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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