Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 35
After proceeding a short distance, he entered a hall, or antechamber, on the opposite side of which was a door; and before it, on a pedestal, stood a gigantic figure, of the colour of bronze, and of a terrible aspect.
Who acts: King · What happens: proceed, enter, be, stand · To what, where: short distance, hall, opposite side, door, gigantic figure
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 (King), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 proceeding | mark |
| 2 | proceeding | proceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 entered | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 distance | det |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 distance | amod |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proceeding | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 proceeding | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 entered | nsubj |
| 8 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 antechamber | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 antechamber | cc |
| 13 | antechamber | antechamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 side | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 17 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 side | amod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 door | obl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 door | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 side | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 it | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 it | cc |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 entered | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pedestal | punct |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 pedestal | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 pedestal | det |
| 31 | pedestal | pedestal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stood | punct |
| 33 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 entered | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 figure | det |
| 35 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 figure | amod |
| 36 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stood | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 colour | punct |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 colour | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 colour | det |
| 40 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stood | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 bronze | case |
| 42 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 colour | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 aspect | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 aspect | cc |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 aspect | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 aspect | det |
| 47 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 aspect | amod |
| 48 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stood | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | gerund | King not said here | a short distance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | King | a hall | the opposite side | before door | antechamber obl; a pedestal parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | |
| 3 | is a | past | a door | of the opposite side | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | King not said here | a gigantic figure | of the colour of bronze; of a terrible aspect | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
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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