Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 48
“In this coffer is contained the mystery of the tower.
What happens: contain · To what, where: mystery, coffer
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 contained | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 coffer | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 coffer | det |
| 4 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 contained | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 contained | aux:pass |
| 6 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mystery | det |
| 8 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 contained | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tower | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tower | det |
| 11 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mystery | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain in a quote | present · passive | the mystery of the tower | this coffer | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: mystery=Value in coffer=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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