Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 33
He gazed on the beautiful Florinda with fervid desire, and sought to read in her looks whether there was levity or wantonness in her bosom; but the eye of the damsel ever sunk beneath his gaze, and remained bent on the earth in virgin modesty.
Who acts: heart, levity, eye, contest · What happens: gaze, seek, read, look, be, sink · To what, where: earth
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 (heart, levity, eye, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gazed | nsubj |
| 2 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Florinda | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Florinda | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Florinda | amod |
| 6 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gazed | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 desire | case |
| 8 | fervid | fervid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 desire | amod |
| 9 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gazed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sought | cc |
| 12 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gazed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 read | mark |
| 14 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sought | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 looks | mark |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 looks | nmod:poss |
| 17 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 read | ccomp |
| 18 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 20 was | mark |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looks | advcl |
| 21 | levity | levity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 was | nsubj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 wantonness | cc |
| 23 | wantonness | wantonness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 levity | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bosom | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 levity | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 sunk | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 sunk | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 eye | det |
| 30 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sunk | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 damsel | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 damsel | det |
| 33 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eye | nmod |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 sunk | advmod |
| 35 | sunk | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gazed | conj |
| 36 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 38 gaze | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 38 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sunk | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 bent | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 bent | cc |
| 41 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 bent | aux:pass |
| 42 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gazed | conj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 earth | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 earth | det |
| 45 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bent | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 modesty | case |
| 47 | virgin | virgin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 modesty | amod |
| 48 | modesty | modesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bent | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | heart | with fervid desire; on the beautiful Florinda | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on florinda=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | heart not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | read not said to happen | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look | present | heart not said here | contest nmod:poss | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | be | past | levity in contest's bosom or wantonness | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sink | past | the eye of the damsel | ever | beneath heart's gaze | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 7 | bend | past · passive | heart not said here | the earth | in virgin modesty | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: on earth=Location | |||
| 8 | bosom | contest | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | gaze | heart | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=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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