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title: He fell headlong from the top of that tall tower, and not a bone in… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He fell headlong from the top of that tall tower, and not a bone in his tender frame but was crushed upon the rocks beneath. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 156

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He fell headlong from the top of that tall tower, and not a bone in his tender frame but was crushed upon the rocks beneath.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** fall, crush · **To what, where:** bone, top

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:39:156
# text = He fell headlong from the top of that tall tower, and not a bone in his tender frame but was crushed upon the rocks beneath.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | boy | a bone in boy's tender frame |  | the top of that tall tower |  | headlong *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from top=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **crush** | past · passive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the rocks; beneath *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |

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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.

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**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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