Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 30
In their playful eagerness they half disrobed the innocent Florinda before she was aware.
Who acts: companions, contest · What happens: disrobe, be · To what, where: innocent Florinda, playful eagerness
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 (companions, contest), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 eagerness | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eagerness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | playful | playful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eagerness | amod |
| 4 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disrobed | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 disrobed | nsubj |
| 6 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 disrobed | advmod |
| 7 | disrobed | disrobe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Florinda | det |
| 9 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Florinda | amod |
| 10 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 disrobed | obj |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 aware | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 aware | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 aware | cop |
| 14 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 disrobed | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 disrobed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disrobe | past | companions = companion | the innocent Florinda | companions's playful eagerness | half property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent florinda=Patient | ||
| 2 | is | past | contest | aware property | tree rules |
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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