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title: His coming and going were alike without noise, and the door of the c… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: His coming and going were alike without noise, and the door of the chamber remained fast bolted. Who acts: crime, coming, door. 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 every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 81

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His coming and going were alike without noise, and the door of the chamber remained fast bolted.

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**Who acts:** crime, coming, door · **What happens:** come, go, be, remain, bolt

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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 (crime, coming, door), 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:pg77685:39:81
# text = His coming and going were alike without noise, and the door of the chamber remained fast bolted.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | crime |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | crime *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | coming |  |  |  |  | without noise; alike *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | past | the door of the chamber |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bolt** | participle | the door of the chamber *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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