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title: The breeze blew his curling locks from about his face, and his cheek… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The breeze blew his curling locks from about his face, and his cheek glowed at the boundless prospect; for the tower was reared upon that lofty promontory on which Hercules founded one of his pillars. Who acts: breeze, curling, cheek, Hercules. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Was
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 150

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The breeze blew his curling locks from about his face, and his cheek glowed at the boundless prospect; for the tower was reared upon that lofty promontory on which Hercules founded one of his pillars.

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**Who acts:** breeze, curling, cheek, Hercules · **What happens:** blow, lock, glow, rear, found, curl · **To what, where:** face, boundless prospect, tower, one, lofty promontory

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breeze, curling, cheek, Hercules), 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:pg77685:39:150
# text = The breeze blew his curling locks from about his face, and his cheek glowed at the boundless prospect; for the tower was reared upon that lofty promontory on which Hercules founded one of his pillars.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	curling	curling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	locks	lock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	reared	rear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	promontory	promontory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
32	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the breeze |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lock** | present | breeze's curling |  |  | breeze's face |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **glow** | past | breeze's cheek |  |  | the boundless prospect |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prospect=Location |
| 4 | **rear** | past · passive |  | the tower |  |  |  | upon that lofty promontory | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **found** | past | Hercules | one of breeze's pillars |  | that lofty promontory |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme on which=Source |
| 6 | **curl** |  | breeze |  |  |  |  |  | nom curling «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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