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title: On either side of the portal stood the two ancient guardians of the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: On either side of the portal stood the two ancient guardians of the tower, laden with the keys appertaining to the locks. Who acts: keys. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 15

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On either side of the portal stood the two ancient guardians of the tower, laden with the keys appertaining to the locks.

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**Who acts:** keys · **What happens:** stand, lade, appertain · **To what, where:** two ancient guardians, side

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (keys), 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:pg77685:8:15
# text = On either side of the portal stood the two ancient guardians of the tower, laden with the keys appertaining to the locks.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	portal	portal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	appertaining	appertain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | the two ancient guardians of the tower |  | either side of the portal |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guardian=Theme on side=Destination |
| 2 | **lade** | participle |  | the two ancient guardians of the tower *not said here* |  |  |  | with the keys | tree rules |
| 3 | **appertain** | gerund | the keys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the locks | 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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