Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 61
At sight of these things the king was troubled in spirit, and dismay fell upon his attendants.
Who acts: king, sight · What happens: be, dismay, fall, sight · To what, where: things, spirit, sight
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, sight), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 sight | case |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 things | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 things | det |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sight | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 troubled | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 troubled | cop |
| 9 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 spirit | case |
| 11 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 troubled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dismay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dismay | cc |
| 14 | dismay | dismay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sight | acl:relcl |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 attendants | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 18 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | this things not said here | spirit | troubled property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | dismay | present | sight of this things not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | sight of this things | upon King's attendants | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | ||||
| 4 | sight | this things | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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