Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 37
The maiden knelt at his feet to examine his hand, and the touch of her slender fingers thrilled through his veins.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: kneel, examine, thrill, touch · To what, where: feet, hand, slender fingers, veins
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 (maiden), 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 | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knelt | nsubj |
| 3 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knelt | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 examine | mark |
| 8 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knelt | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 examine | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 touch | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 touch | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 touch | det |
| 14 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knelt | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fingers | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fingers | amod |
| 18 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 touch | nmod |
| 19 | thrilled | thrill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 fingers | acl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 veins | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 veins | nmod:poss |
| 22 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thrilled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | the maiden | heart's feet | the touch of thorn's slender fingers advcl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | |||
| 2 | examine | to-infinitive | the maiden not said here | heart's hand | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thrill | participle | thorn's slender fingers not said here | heart's veins | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | touch | thorn's slender fingers | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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