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title: It looked into an interior garden, or court, set out with orange tre… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It looked into an interior garden, or court, set out with orange trees, in the midst of which was a marble fountain, surrounded by a grassy bank, enamelled with flowers. Who acts: casement. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda., with its depend
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 18

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It looked into an interior garden, or court, set out with orange trees, in the midst of which was a marble fountain, surrounded by a grassy bank, enamelled with flowers.

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**Who acts:** casement · **What happens:** look, set out, be, surround, enamell · **To what, where:** court, midst, marble fountain

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (casement), 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:pg77685:6:18
# text = It looked into an interior garden, or court, set out with orange trees, in the midst of which was a marble fountain, surrounded by a grassy bank, enamelled with flowers.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	interior	interior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	enamelled	enamell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | casement |  |  |  |  | into a interior garden; court *parataxis* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into garden=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | participle |  | court *not said here* |  | the midst |  | with orange trees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a marble fountain |  |  |  | of the midst | tree rules |
| 4 | **surround** | participle |  | a marble fountain *not said here* |  |  |  | a grassy bank *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **enamell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with flowers | tree rules |

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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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