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title: On opening the casket, and regarding its contents, the eyes of the t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: On opening the casket, and regarding its contents, the eyes of the tyrant sparkled with malignant satisfaction. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 53

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On opening the casket, and regarding its contents, the eyes of the tyrant sparkled with malignant satisfaction.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** open, regard, sparkle · **To what, where:** casket

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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:pg77685:38:53
# text = On opening the casket, and regarding its contents, the eyes of the tyrant sparkled with malignant satisfaction.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	malignant	malignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | gerund | the eyes of the tyrant *not said here* | the casket |  |  |  | regard casket's contents | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location casket=Theme |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sparkle** | participle | the eyes of the tyrant |  |  |  |  | with malignant satisfaction | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with satisfaction=Theme |

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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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