Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 39
Having examined the monarch’s hand in vain, she looked up in his face with artless perplexity.
Who acts: thorn, hand · What happens: have, examine, look up · To what, where: hand, vain
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, hand), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 looked | advcl |
| 2 | examined | examine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monarch | det |
| 4 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 monarch | case |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 vain | case |
| 8 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Having | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 looked | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 perplexity | case |
| 17 | artless | artless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 perplexity | amod |
| 18 | perplexity | perplexity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 face | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thorn not said here | the monarch's hand | vain | tree rules | |||
| 2 | examine | participle | the monarch's hand not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look up | past | thorn | in charm's face with artless perplexity | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=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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