Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 29
The anguish of her mind preyed upon the beauty of her person.
Who acts: anguish, mind · What happens: prey, anguish, mind
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 (anguish, mind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 anguish | det |
| 2 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preyed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mind | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 anguish | nmod |
| 6 | preyed | prey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 beauty | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beauty | det |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preyed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 person | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 person | nmod:poss |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beauty | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 preyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prey | past | the anguish of anguish's mind | upon the beauty of anguish's person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | anguish | anguish's mind | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | mind | anguish | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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