Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 65
The damsel rose from the earth where she had hitherto knelt, and her whole countenance glowed with virtuous indignation.
Who acts: damsel, whole countenance · What happens: rise, kneel, glow · To what, where: earth, mistress
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 (damsel, whole 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 damsel | det |
| 2 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 earth | det |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 knelt | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knelt | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knelt | aux |
| 10 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 11 knelt | advmod |
| 11 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 earth | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glowed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 glowed | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 countenance | amod |
| 16 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glowed | nsubj |
| 17 | glowed | glow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rose | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 indignation | case |
| 19 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 indignation | amod |
| 20 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glowed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the damsel | the earth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | kneel | past · perfect · passive | mistress | hitherto property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | glow | participle | mistress's whole countenance | with virtuous indignation | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with indignation=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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