--- title: 8.) says, that the said house fairies (or familiar spirits), or thos… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: 8.) says, that the said house fairies (or familiar spirits), or those of the air, cause the apparitions of armies and battles; such as those which are related in tradition (and some persons even depose to the truth of them as eye-witnesses) of the town and castle of Marcuello, a fortress at the foot --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/40/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [Note to the Preceding Legend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/40/) / 10 # Legends of the conquest of Spain, Note to the Preceding Legend., sentence 10 8.) says, that the said house fairies (or familiar spirits), or those of the air, cause the apparitions of armies and battles; such as those which are related in tradition (and some persons even depose to the truth of them as eye-witnesses) of the town and castle of Marcuello, a fortress at the foot of the mountains of Arragon (at present uninhabitable, on account of the great and frightful noises heard in it), the place of retreat of Count Don Julian, the cause of the perdition of Spain. **Who acts:** those, persons · **What happens:** say, cause, be, depose, hear, account · **To what, where:** apparitions, tradition, great noises, account, perdition · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Note to the Preceding Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those, persons), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:40:10 # text = 8.) says, that the said house fairies (or familiar spirits), or those of the air, cause the apparitions of armies and battles; such as those which are related in tradition (and some persons even depose to the truth of them as eye-witnesses) of the town and castle of Marcuello, a fortress at the foot of the mountains of Arragon (at present uninhabitable, on account of the great and frightful noises heard in it), the place of retreat of Count Don Julian, the cause of the perdition of Spain. 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 2 . . 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PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | 8 *ccomp*; the said house fairies *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cause** | infinitive | those of the air | the apparitions of armies and battles | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition apparition=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | those | | | tradition | | of the town and castle of Marcuello and a fortress at the foot of the mountains of Arragon and the place of retreat of Count Don; related *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **depose** | present | some persons | | | | | to the truth of battles; as eye witnesses | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hear** | participle | | the great noises *not said here* | | account | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **account** | | | the great noises | | | | | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **cause** | | | the perdition of Spain | | | | | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/40/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/40/11/) - ↑ back to [Note to the Preceding Legend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/40/)