Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 38
As she knelt, too, her amber locks fell in rich ringlets about her beautiful head, her innocent bosom palpitated beneath the crimson boddice, and her timid blushes increased the effulgence of her charms.
Who acts: thorn, amber, timid blushes · What happens: kneel, lock, fall, palpitate, increase, bosom · To what, where: rich ringlets, innocent bosom, effulgence
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 (thorn, amber, timid blushes), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 knelt | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knelt | nsubj |
| 3 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 locks | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knelt | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 knelt | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knelt | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 amber | nmod:poss |
| 8 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 locks | nsubj |
| 9 | locks | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 locks | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ringlets | case |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ringlets | amod |
| 13 | ringlets | ringlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 head | amod |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ringlets | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bosom | punct |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 20 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bosom | amod |
| 21 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ringlets | conj |
| 22 | palpitated | palpitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bosom | acl |
| 23 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 26 boddice | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boddice | det |
| 25 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 boddice | compound |
| 26 | boddice | boddice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 palpitated | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 increased | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 increased | cc |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 blushes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 blushes | amod |
| 31 | blushes | blush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 increased | nsubj |
| 32 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 effulgence | det |
| 34 | effulgence | effulgence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 increased | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 charms | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 charms | nmod:poss |
| 37 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 effulgence | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 locks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | thorn | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lock | present | thorn's amber | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | thorn's amber not said here | rich ringlets about thorn's beautiful head and thorn's innocent bosom | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ringlet=Location | ||||
| 4 | palpitate | participle | thorn's innocent bosom not said here | beneath the crimson boddice | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | increase | past | thorn's timid blushes | the effulgence of thorn's charms | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer effulgence=Patient | ||||
| 6 | bosom | thorn | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | blush | thorn | nom blush «state 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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