Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 24

The ancient men obeyed with fear and trembling, but their hands shook with age, and when they applied the keys, the locks were so rusted by time, or of such strange workmanship, that they resisted their feeble efforts; whereupon the young cavaliers pressed forward and lent their aid.

Who acts: ancient men, hands, guardians, young cavaliers · What happens: obey, tremble, shook, apply, rust, resist · To what, where: keys, locks, feeble efforts, aid

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 (ancient men, hands, guardians, young cavaliers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 obeyed	nsubj
4	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 fear	case
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obeyed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trembling	cc
8	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fear	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shook	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 shook	cc
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shook	nsubj
13	shook	shook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 age	case
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shook	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 applied	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 applied	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 applied	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 applied	nsubj
20	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 keys	det
22	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 applied	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rusted	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 locks	det
25	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rusted	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 rusted	aux:pass
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 rusted	advmod
28	rusted	rust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 applied	parataxis
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 time	case
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rusted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 workmanship	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 workmanship	cc
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 workmanship	case
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 workmanship	amod
35	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 workmanship	amod
36	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rusted	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 resisted	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 resisted	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 resisted	nsubj
40	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 rusted	conj
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 efforts	nmod:poss
42	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 efforts	amod
43	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 resisted	obj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 pressed	punct
45	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	49 pressed	advmod
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 cavaliers	det
47	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 cavaliers	amod
48	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 pressed	nsubj
49	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	parataxis
50	forward	forward	ADV	_	49 pressed	advmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 lent	cc
52	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 pressed	conj
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 aid	nmod:poss
54	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 lent	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	obey	past	the ancient men			with fear	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tremble	gerund	the ancient men not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shook	present	guardians's hands		with age		tree rules
4	apply	past	guardians = guardian	the keys			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme
5	rust	past · passive		the locks	time	of such strange workmanship	tree rules
6	resist	past	guardians = guardian	guardians's feeble efforts			tree rules
7	press forward	past	the young cavaliers			forward, whereupon property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	lend	past	the young cavaliers not said here	guardians's aid			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Theme

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 24