Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 28
There was a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin, that seemed to send forth sweetness like the flowers around her.
Who acts: breathing tenderness · What happens: be, seem, send · To what, where: sweetness
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 (breathing tenderness), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tenderness | det |
| 4 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tenderness | compound |
| 5 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 beauty | cc |
| 7 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tenderness | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 virgin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 virgin | det |
| 10 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 virgin | compound |
| 11 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beauty | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tenderness | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 send | mark |
| 16 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 send | advmod |
| 18 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 send | obj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 flowers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flowers | det |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 send | obl |
| 22 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 send | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin not said here | sweetness | like the flowers; around contest; forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetness=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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