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title: There lay the flower of her youthful chivalry, mangled and destroyed… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: There lay the flower of her youthful chivalry, mangled and destroyed, and the strength of her yeomanry prostrated in the dust. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 5

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There lay the flower of her youthful chivalry, mangled and destroyed, and the strength of her yeomanry prostrated in the dust.

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**What happens:** lie, mangle, destroy, prostrate · **To what, where:** flower, youthful chivalry, yeomanry, dust

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:19:5
# text = There lay the flower of her youthful chivalry, mangled and destroyed, and the strength of her yeomanry prostrated in the dust.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chivalry	chivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mangled	mangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	yeomanry	yeomanry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | the flower of eye's youthful chivalry |  | there |  | the strength of eye's yeomanry *parataxis* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme |
| 2 | **mangle** | participle |  | eye's youthful chivalry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **destroy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **prostrate** | participle |  | eye's yeomanry *not said here* |  | the dust |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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