Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 58
You may have thought me light and simple, and unworthy to attend upon the queen.
Who acts: You · What happens: think, attend · To what, where: me
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | obj |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 simple | cc |
| 8 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 light | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unworthy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 unworthy | cc |
| 11 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 attend | mark |
| 13 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unworthy | xcomp |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 queen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attend | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | may · perfect | You | me | light obj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme light=Attribute | |||
| 2 | attend | to-infinitive | You not said here | upon the queen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon queen=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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