Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 40
Upon this the figure paused with uplifted mace, and the king and his train passed unmolested through the door.
Who acts: king · What happens: pause, uplift, pass · To what, where: figure, door
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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 figure | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 figure | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 figure | det |
| 4 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paused | obl |
| 5 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 mace | case |
| 7 | uplifted | uplift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mace | amod |
| 8 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paused | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 passed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 passed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 train | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 train | nmod:poss |
| 15 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | conj |
| 16 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paused | parataxis |
| 17 | unmolested | unmolested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 passed | xcomp |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | this figure | with uplifted mace | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon figure=Location | ||||
| 2 | uplift | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | pass | past | the king and King's train | the door | unmolested property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through door=Location |
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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