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title: One day when she was walking with her parents in the garden of their… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: One day when she was walking with her parents in the garden of their palace, she entered a tower, and, having barred the door, ascended to the battlements. Who acts: presence. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its depe
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 33

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One day when she was walking with her parents in the garden of their palace, she entered a tower, and, having barred the door, ascended to the battlements.

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**Who acts:** presence · **What happens:** walk, enter, bar, ascend · **To what, where:** garden, tower, door, battlements

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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 (presence), 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:pg77685:39:33
# text = One day when she was walking with her parents in the garden of their palace, she entered a tower, and, having barred the door, ascended to the battlements.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux	_	_
25	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | presence |  |  | the garden of parents's palace |  | with presence's parents | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory |
| 2 | **enter** | past | presence | a tower |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tower=Destination |
| 3 | **bar** | gerund · perfect | presence *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer door=Theme |
| 4 | **ascend** | participle | presence *not said here* |  |  | the battlements |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to battlement=Initial\_Location |

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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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