Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 76
She advanced to embrace him, but he forbade her with a motion of his hand; and she observed that he was ghastly pale, and that his eyes glared as with lambent flames.
Who acts: Frandina, reader, eyes, hand · What happens: advance, embrace, forbid, observe, be, glare · To what, where: reader, Frandina
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 (Frandina, reader, eyes, hand), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 advanced | nsubj |
| 2 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 embrace | mark |
| 4 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 advanced | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 embrace | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forbade | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 forbade | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forbade | nsubj |
| 9 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 advanced | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forbade | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 motion | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 motion | det |
| 13 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forbade | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 motion | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 observed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 observed | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 observed | nsubj |
| 20 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 advanced | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 pale | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pale | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pale | cop |
| 24 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pale | amod |
| 25 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 observed | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 glared | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 glared | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 glared | mark |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 glared | nsubj |
| 31 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 observed | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 flames | case |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 flames | case |
| 34 | lambent | lambent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 flames | amod |
| 35 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 glared | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | Frandina | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | embrace | to-infinitive | Frandina not said here | reader | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | forbid | past | reader | Frandina | with a motion of reader's hand | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme | |||
| 4 | observe | past | Frandina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | reader | pale property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | glare | past | reader's eyes | as lambent flames | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | motion | reader's hand | nom motion «communication intransitive»: of=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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