Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 126
When they came to the chapel, her cheek turned pale and her lip quivered.
Who acts: emir, cheek, lip · What happens: come, turn, quiver · To what, where: chapel
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emir, cheek, lip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 chapel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chapel | det |
| 6 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turned | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 quivered | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lip | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quivered | nsubj |
| 15 | quivered | quiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | emir | the chapel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chapel=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Alahor's cheek | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | quiver | past | cheek's lip | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
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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