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title: After proceeding a short distance, he entered a hall, or antechamber… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: After proceeding a short distance, he entered a hall, or antechamber, on the opposite side of which was a door; and before it, on a pedestal, stood a gigantic figure, of the colour of bronze, and of a terrible aspect. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irv
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 35

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After proceeding a short distance, he entered a hall, or antechamber, on the opposite side of which was a door; and before it, on a pedestal, stood a gigantic figure, of the colour of bronze, and of a terrible aspect.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** proceed, enter, be, stand · **To what, where:** short distance, hall, opposite side, door, gigantic figure

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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 (King), 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:pg77685:8:35
# text = After proceeding a short distance, he entered a hall, or antechamber, on the opposite side of which was a door; and before it, on a pedestal, stood a gigantic figure, of the colour of bronze, and of a terrible aspect.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	proceeding	proceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	antechamber	antechamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	pedestal	pedestal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | gerund | King *not said here* | a short distance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | past | King | a hall |  | the opposite side | before door | antechamber *obl*; a pedestal *parataxis* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a door |  |  |  | of the opposite side | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | King *not said here* | a gigantic figure |  |  |  | of the colour of bronze; of a terrible aspect | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |

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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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