Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 27
The soft glow of youth and health mantled on her cheek; her fringed eyelashes scarcely covered their sleeping orbs; her moist and ruby lips were lightly parted, just revealing a gleam of her ivory teeth; while her innocent bosom rose and fell beneath her boddice, like the gentle swelling and sinking of a tranquil sea.
Who acts: soft glow, sleeping, youth, glow, tranquil sea · What happens: mantle, cover, orb, part, reveal, fall · To what, where: health, cheek, moist lips, gleam, boddice
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 (soft glow, sleeping, youth, glow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 glow | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glow | amod |
| 3 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 youth | case |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glow | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 health | cc |
| 7 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 youth | conj |
| 8 | mantled | mantle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 health | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 cheek | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mantled | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyelashes | punct |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyelashes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fringed | fringed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyelashes | amod |
| 15 | eyelashes | eyelash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glow | conj |
| 16 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 17 covered | advmod |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sleeping | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 orbs | nsubj |
| 20 | orbs | orb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | ccomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 parted | punct |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lips | nmod:poss |
| 23 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lips | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ruby | cc |
| 25 | ruby | ruby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 moist | conj |
| 26 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 parted | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 parted | aux:pass |
| 28 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 29 parted | advmod |
| 29 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 covered | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 revealing | punct |
| 31 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 revealing | advmod |
| 32 | revealing | reveal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 parted | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 gleam | det |
| 34 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 revealing | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 teeth | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ivory | ivory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 teeth | amod |
| 38 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 gleam | nmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 rose | punct |
| 40 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 44 rose | mark |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 rose | nmod:poss |
| 42 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 rose | amod |
| 43 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rose | compound |
| 44 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | conj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 fell | cc |
| 46 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | conj |
| 47 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 49 boddice | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 boddice | nmod:poss |
| 49 | boddice | boddice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fell | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 swelling | punct |
| 51 | like | like | ADP | _ | 54 swelling | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 swelling | det |
| 53 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 swelling | amod |
| 54 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fell | obl |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 sinking | cc |
| 56 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 swelling | conj |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 sea | case |
| 58 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 sea | det |
| 59 | tranquil | tranquil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 sea | amod |
| 60 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 sinking | nmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mantle | participle | health not said here | contest's cheek | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | the soft glow of youth and health and contest's fringed eyelashes | contest's innocent bosom rose conj; scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | orb | present | glow's sleeping | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | part | past · passive | contest's moist lips | lightly property | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | reveal | gerund | a gleam of contest's ivory teeth | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gleam=Topic | |||||
| 6 | fall | past | the soft glow of youth and health and contest's fringed eyelashes not said here | contest's boddice | like the gentle swelling and sinking of a tranquil sea | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath boddice=Location | |||
| 7 | glow | youth and health | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | sleep | glow | nom sleeping «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | sink | a tranquil sea | nom sinking «event 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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