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title: In a little while the edifice burst forth into a blaze as though it… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In a little while the edifice burst forth into a blaze as though it had been built of rosin, and the flames mounted into the air with a brilliancy more dazzling than the sun; nor did they cease until every stone was consumed and the whole was reduced to a heap of ashes. Who acts: edifice, flames. A 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 84

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In a little while the edifice burst forth into a blaze as though it had been built of rosin, and the flames mounted into the air with a brilliancy more dazzling than the sun; nor did they cease until every stone was consumed and the whole was reduced to a heap of ashes.

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**Who acts:** edifice, flames · **What happens:** burst, build, mount, dazzle, cease, consume · **To what, where:** little, edifice, flames, air, stone, whole

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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 (edifice, flames), 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:pg77685:8:84
# text = In a little while the edifice burst forth into a blaze as though it had been built of rosin, and the flames mounted into the air with a brilliancy more dazzling than the sun; nor did they cease until every stone was consumed and the whole was reduced to a heap of ashes.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	edifice	edifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	rosin	rosin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
24	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
33	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	40	cc	_	_
38	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
41	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
43	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	advcl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | the edifice |  |  | a little |  | into a blaze; forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in little=Location |
| 2 | **build** | past · perfect · passive |  | edifice |  |  |  | of rosin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **mount** | participle |  | the flames *not said here* |  | the air |  | with a brilliancy | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Location |
| 4 | **dazzle** | gerund | the flames |  |  |  |  | than the sun | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **cease** | past · do-support | flames *= flame* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **consume** | past · passive |  | every stone |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 7 | **reduce** | past · passive |  | the whole |  |  |  | to a heap of ashes *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient to heap=Goal |

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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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