Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 30
Her eye, once soft and tender in its expression, became wild and haggard; her cheek lost its bloom, and became hollow and pallid; and at times there was desperation in her words.
Who acts: cheek, desperation, eye, presence · What happens: become, lose, be, bloom, word · To what, where: bloom, words
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 (cheek, desperation, eye, presence), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eye | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soft | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 soft | punct |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 soft | advmod |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tender | cc |
| 7 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soft | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 expression | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 expression | nmod:poss |
| 10 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tender | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 soft | conj |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 haggard | cc |
| 15 | haggard | haggard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wild | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 lost | punct |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 soft | parataxis |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bloom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 became | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 became | cc |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lost | conj |
| 25 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 became | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pallid | cc |
| 27 | pallid | pallid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hollow | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 was | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 times | cc |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 times | case |
| 31 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 was | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 was | expl |
| 33 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 soft | parataxis |
| 34 | desperation | desperation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 was | nsubj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 words | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 words | nmod:poss |
| 37 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 was | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | wild property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | presence's cheek | eye's bloom | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloom=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | become | past | presence's cheek not said here | hollow property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | past | desperation | presence's words; there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in word=Location | |||
| 6 | bloom | eye | nom bloom «process intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | word | presence | nom word «communication 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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