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Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 60

In this way the agitated maiden sought to evade the addresses of the monarch; but still her cheek was blanched, and her lip quivered as she spake.

Who acts: agitated maiden, lip · What happens: agitate, seek, evade, blanch, quiver, address · To what, where: way, addresses, cheek, monarch

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 (agitated maiden, lip), 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

casedetobldetamodnsubjmarkxcompdetobjcasedetnmodpunctccadvmodnmod:possnsubj:passaux:passconjpunctccnmod:possnsubjconjcasecompoundoblpunctrootInADPthisDETwayNOUNtheDETagitatedVERBmaidenNOUNsoughtVERBtoPARTevadeVERBtheDETaddressesNOUNofADPtheDETmonarchNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJstillADVherPRONcheekNOUNwasAUXblanchedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJherPRONlipNOUNquiveredVERBasADPshePRONspakeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_3 waycase
2thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 waydet
3waywayNOUNNumber=Sing7 soughtobl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 maidendet
5agitatedagitateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 maidenamod
6maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing7 soughtnsubj
7soughtseekVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8totoPART_9 evademark
9evadeevadeVERBVerbForm=Inf7 soughtxcomp
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 addressesdet
11addressesaddressNOUNNumber=Plur9 evadeobj
12ofofADP_14 monarchcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 monarchdet
14monarchmonarchNOUNNumber=Sing11 addressesnmod
15;;PUNCT_21 blanchedpunct
16butbutCCONJ_21 blanchedcc
17stillstillADV_21 blanchedadvmod
18herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 cheeknmod:poss
19cheekcheekNOUNNumber=Sing21 blanchednsubj:pass
20wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 blanchedaux:pass
21blanchedblanchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 soughtconj
22,,PUNCT_26 quiveredpunct
23andandCCONJ_26 quiveredcc
24herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 lipnmod:poss
25liplipNOUNNumber=Sing26 quiverednsubj
26quiveredquiverVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 soughtconj
27asasADP_29 spakecase
28sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 spakecompound
29spakespeakNOUNNumber=Sing26 quiveredobl
30..PUNCT_7 soughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1agitateparticiplevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2seekpastthe agitated maidenthis waytree rules
3evade not said to happento-infinitivethe agitated maiden not said herethe addresses of the monarchvn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent address=Location
4blanchpast · passivemajesty's cheekstillvn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5quiverpastmajesty's lipas she spakevn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6addressthe monarchnom address «communication 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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