Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 62

While they were yet regarding the paintings, it seemed as if the figures began to move, and a faint sound of warlike tumult arose from the cloth, with the clash of cymbal and bray of trumpet, the neigh of steed and shout of army; but all was heard indistinctly, as if afar off, or in a reverie or dream.

Who acts: attendants, it, figures, faint sound, cymbal, trumpet · What happens: regard, seem, begin, move, arise, shout · To what, where: paintings, cloth, all, reverie

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 (attendants, it, figures, faint sound), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 regarding	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 regarding	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 regarding	aux
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 regarding	advmod
5	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 seemed	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 paintings	det
7	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 regarding	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 regarding	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 began	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 began	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 figures	det
14	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 move	mark
17	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 arose	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 arose	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sound	det
21	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sound	amod
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 arose	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 tumult	case
24	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tumult	amod
25	tumult	tumult	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sound	nmod
26	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	parataxis
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 cloth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cloth	det
29	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 arose	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 clash	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 clash	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 clash	det
33	clash	clash	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 arose	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 cymbal	case
35	cymbal	cymbal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clash	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bray	cc
37	bray	bray	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cymbal	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 trumpet	case
39	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bray	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 neigh	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 neigh	det
42	neigh	neigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clash	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 steed	case
44	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 neigh	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 shout	cc
46	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 arose	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 army	case
48	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shout	obl
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 heard	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 heard	cc
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 heard	nsubj:pass
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 heard	aux:pass
53	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seemed	conj
54	indistinctly	indistinctly	ADV	_	53 heard	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 afar	punct
56	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 afar	mark
57	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 afar	mark
58	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 heard	xcomp
59	off	off	ADP	_	58 afar	compound:prt
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 reverie	punct
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	64 reverie	cc
62	in	in	ADP	_	64 reverie	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 reverie	det
64	reverie	reverie	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 heard	obl
65	or	or	CCONJ	_	66 dream	cc
66	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 reverie	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	regard	past · progressive	attendants = attendant	the paintings		yet		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme
2	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the figures					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	move	to-infinitive	the figures not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	arise	past	a faint sound of warlike tumult		the cloth		with the clash of cymbal and bray of trumpet and the neigh of steed	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shout speech: express	infinitive	a faint sound of warlike tumult not said here				of army	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hear	past · passive		all	a reverie or dream		afar, indistinctly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
8	clash		cymbal and bray of trumpet					nom clash «event intransitive»: of=agent
9	bray		trumpet					nom bray «event intransitive»: of=agent
10	neigh		steed					nom neigh «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 62