Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 71

They fled through the outer chamber, where the gigantic figure with the whirling mace had disappeared from his pedestal; and on issuing into the open air, they found the two ancient guardians of the tower lying dead at the portal, as though they had been crushed by some mighty blow.

Who acts: attendants, tower, mighty blow · What happens: flee, disappear, issue, find, lie, crush · To what, where: outer chamber, gigantic figure, pedestal, open air, two ancient guardians, portal

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, tower, mighty blow), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 chamber	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chamber	det
5	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chamber	amod
6	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 disappeared	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 disappeared	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 figure	det
10	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 figure	amod
11	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 disappeared	nsubj:pass
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 mace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mace	det
14	whirling	whirling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mace	compound
15	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 figure	nmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 disappeared	aux
17	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 chamber	acl:relcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 pedestal	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pedestal	nmod:poss
20	pedestal	pedestal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 disappeared	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
23	on	on	SCONJ	_	24 issuing	mark
24	issuing	issue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 found	advcl
25	into	into	ADP	_	28 air	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 air	det
27	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 air	amod
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 issuing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 issuing	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fled	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 guardians	det
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 guardians	nummod
34	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 guardians	amod
35	guardians	guardian	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 found	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 tower	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tower	det
38	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 guardians	nmod
39	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 tower	acl
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 lying	xcomp
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 portal	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 portal	det
43	portal	portal	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lying	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 crushed	punct
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 crushed	mark
46	though	though	SCONJ	_	50 crushed	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 crushed	nsubj:pass
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 crushed	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 crushed	aux:pass
50	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 found	conj
51	by	by	ADP	_	54 blow	case
52	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	54 blow	det
53	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 blow	amod
54	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 crushed	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	past	attendants = attendant		the outer chamber		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through chamber=Initial_Location
2	disappear	past · perfect · passive		the gigantic figure with the whirling mace	mace's pedestal		tree rules
3	issue	gerund	attendants = attendant not said here		the open air		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	attendants = attendant	the two ancient guardians of the tower			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guardian=Topic
5	lie	gerund	the tower not said here		the portal	dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at portal=Location
6	crush	past · perfect · passive	some mighty blow	attendants = attendant			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 71