Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 47
When the hapless Florinda came in presence of her mother, she fell on her neck, and hid her face in her bosom, and wept; but the countess shed never a tear, for she was a woman haughty of spirit and strong of heart.
Who acts: hapless Florinda, Florinda, countess · What happens: come, fall, hide, weep, shed, be · To what, where: presence, neck, face, bosom, tear
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hapless Florinda, Florinda, countess), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Florinda | det |
| 3 | hapless | hapless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Florinda | amod |
| 4 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 presence | case |
| 7 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presence | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 neck | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 neck | nmod:poss |
| 16 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hid | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hid | cc |
| 19 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bosom | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wept | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wept | cc |
| 27 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hid | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 shed | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 shed | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 countess | det |
| 31 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shed | nsubj |
| 32 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 tear | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 tear | det |
| 35 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shed | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 woman | punct |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 woman | case |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 woman | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 woman | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 woman | det |
| 41 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shed | obl |
| 42 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 woman | amod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 spirit | case |
| 44 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 haughty | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 strong | cc |
| 46 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 haughty | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 heart | case |
| 48 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 strong | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the hapless Florinda | presence of Florinda's mother | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in presence=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Florinda | Florinda's neck | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | Florinda not said here | Florinda's face | Florinda's bosom | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient in bosom=Location | |||
| 4 | weep | past | Florinda not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | shed | past | the countess | a tear | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | ||||
| 6 | is | past | countess | for a woman | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | bosom | Florinda | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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