Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 23

Her complexion had the dark tinge of Mauritania, but it was clear and transparent, and the deep rich rose blushed through the lovely brown.

Who acts: complexion · What happens: have, be, blush · To what, where: dark tinge, deep rich rose, lovely brown

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 (complexion), 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 complexion	nmod:poss
2	complexion	complexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tinge	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tinge	amod
6	tinge	tinge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Mauritania	case
8	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tinge	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 clear	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 clear	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 clear	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 clear	cop
13	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 transparent	cc
15	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clear	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rose	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rose	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rose	det
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rose	amod
20	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rose	amod
21	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	conj
22	blushed	blush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 rose	acl
23	through	through	ADP	_	26 brown	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 brown	det
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 brown	amod
26	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blushed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	queen's complexion	the dark tinge of Mauritania		the deep rich rose conj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tinge=Patient
2	is	past				clear property	tree rules
3	be						tree rules
4	blush	participle		the deep rich rose not said here	the lovely brown		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 23