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title: The hand of none but a king can open it; but let him beware! for mar… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The hand of none but a king can open it; but let him beware! for marvellous events will be revealed to him, which are to take place before his death.” Who acts: hand. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., with its depend
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 49

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The hand of none but a king can open it; but let him beware! for marvellous events will be revealed to him, which are to take place before his death.”

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** open, let, beware, reveal, be, die · **To what, where:** casket, hand

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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 (hand), 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:pg77685:8:49
# text = The hand of none but a king can open it; but let him beware! for marvellous events will be revealed to him, which are to take place before his death.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	2	nmod	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | can | the hand of none  a king | casket |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | the hand of none  a king *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beware** | infinitive | hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **reveal** | future · passive |  |  | hand |  |  | for marvellous events | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | before hand's death | which *nsubj*; place *obj*; take *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **die** |  | hand |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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