Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 24
Her eyes were black and full of fire, and flashed from under long silken eyelashes.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: be, flash · To what, where: long silken eyelashes
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 (eyes), 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 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 black | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 black | cop |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 full | cc |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 black | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flashed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flashed | cc |
| 11 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 black | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 eyelashes | case |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 eyelashes | case |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyelashes | amod |
| 15 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyelashes | amod |
| 16 | eyelashes | eyelash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flashed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | queen's eyes | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | queen's eyes not said here | of fire | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flash | participle | queen's eyes not said here | long silken eyelashes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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