Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 48

So saying, the maiden dropped her eyes to the ground, and continued kneeling; but her countenance had become deadly pale, and as she knelt she trembled.

Who acts: maiden, countenance · What happens: say, drop, continue, kneel, become, tremble · To what, where: eyes, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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, countenance), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dropped	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	nsubj
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dropped	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 continued	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 continued	cc
14	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dropped	parataxis
15	kneeling	kneel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 continued	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 become	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 become	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 countenance	nmod:poss
19	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 become	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 become	aux
21	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 dropped	conj
22	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pale	amod
23	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 become	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knelt	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knelt	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 knelt	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knelt	nsubj
28	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dropped	parataxis
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 trembled	nsubj
30	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 knelt	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	the maiden not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	drop	past	the maiden	parent's eyes	the ground		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to ground=Destination
3	continue	past					vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	kneel	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	become	past · perfect	parent's countenance			pale property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	kneel	past	countenance				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tremble	past	countenance				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 48