Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 45

There were no windows or other openings to admit the day, yet a radiant light was spread throughout the place, which seemed to shine from the walls, and to render every object distinctly visible.

Who acts: windows, place · What happens: be, admit, spread, seem, shine, render · To what, where: radiant light, place, walls, object

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 (windows, place), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 windows	det
4	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 openings	cc
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 openings	amod
7	openings	opening	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 windows	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 admit	mark
9	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 were	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 admit	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spread	punct
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	18 spread	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 light	det
15	radiant	radiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 light	amod
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spread	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spread	aux:pass
18	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	conj
19	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spread	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 place	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 shine	mark
26	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seemed	xcomp
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 walls	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 walls	det
29	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shine	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 render	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 render	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 render	mark
33	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 spread	advcl
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 object	det
35	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 render	obj
36	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	37 visible	advmod
37	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 object	amod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	no windows or other openings		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	no windows or other openings not said here			day	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	spread	past · passive		a radiant light	the place		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme throughout place=Destination
4	seem	past	the place				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	shine	to-infinitive	the place not said here		the walls		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	render	to-infinitive		every object			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=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 45

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 45