Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 47

Upon the table stood a golden casket, richly set round with precious stones, and closed with a lock of mother-of-pearl; and on the lid were inscribed the following words:—

What happens: stand, set, close, inscribe, follow · To what, where: golden casket, table, following words, lid

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: 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	_	3 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 casket	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 casket	amod
7	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
9	richly	richly	ADV	_	10 set	advmod
10	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 casket	acl
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 set	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 stones	case
13	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stones	amod
14	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 set	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 closed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 closed	cc
17	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stood	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 lock	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lock	det
20	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 closed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	26 pearl	case
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pearl	nsubj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 pearl	punct
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 pearl	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 of	punct
26	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lock	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 inscribed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 inscribed	cc
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 lid	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lid	det
31	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 inscribed	obl
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 inscribed	aux:pass
33	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stood	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 words	det
35	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 words	amod
36	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 inscribed	obj
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 inscribed	punct
38	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a golden casket	the table		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent casket=Theme upon table=Destination
2	set	participle	a golden casket not said here		with precious stones; richly, round property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with stone=Instrument
3	close	participle			with a lock of pearl mother	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lock=Theme
4	inscribe	past · passive	the following words	the lid		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: word=Theme on lid=Destination
5	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 47