Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 20
Around the fountain were several of the damsels of the queen, who, confident of the sacred privacy of the place, were yielding in that cool retreat to the indulgence prompted by the season and the hour.
Who acts: queen · What happens: be, confident, yield, prompt · To what, where: fountain, cool retreat, indulgence
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 fountain | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fountain | det |
| 3 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 several | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 several | cop |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 damsels | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 damsels | det |
| 8 | damsels | damsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 yielding | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 queen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 damsels | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 confident | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 confident | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 confident | punct |
| 15 | confident | confident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 queen | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 privacy | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 privacy | det |
| 18 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 privacy | amod |
| 19 | privacy | privacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 confident | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 privacy | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 damsels | punct |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 yielding | aux |
| 25 | yielding | yield | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 several | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 retreat | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 retreat | det |
| 28 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 retreat | amod |
| 29 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 yielding | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 indulgence | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 indulgence | det |
| 32 | indulgence | indulgence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 retreat | nmod |
| 33 | prompted | prompt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 indulgence | acl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 season | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 season | det |
| 36 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 prompted | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 hour | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hour | det |
| 39 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 season | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 several | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fountain | several property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | confident | the queen | of the sacred privacy of the place | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | yield | past · progressive | that cool retreat to the indulgence | of the damsels of the queen | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | prompt | participle | the indulgence not said here | season | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |
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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