--- title: Every day the remembrance of the paternal home grew less and less pa… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: Every day the remembrance of the paternal home grew less and less painful, and the king became more and more amiable in her eyes; and when, at length, he offered to share his heart and throne with her, she listened with downcast looks and kindling blushes, but with an air of resignation. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remembrance, king, life, downcast), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:4:36 # text = Every day the remembrance of the paternal home grew less and less painful, and the king became more and more amiable in her eyes; and when, at length, he offered to share his heart and throne with her, she listened with downcast looks and kindling blushes, but with an air of resignation. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 remembrance remembrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 paternal paternal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 13 painful painful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 amiable amiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ _ 46 with with SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 downcast downcast NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 ccomp _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 kindling kindle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 conj _ _ 51 blushes blush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 but but CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 with with ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 resignation resignation NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the remembrance of the paternal home | | | | day | with a air of resignation; less *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **become** | past | the king | | | | | amiable *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **offer** | past | life | | | length | | | tree rules | | 4 | **share** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | life *not said here* | life's heart and throne | | | | with remembrance | tree rules | | 5 | **listen** | past | remembrance | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | present | downcast | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **kindle** | gerund | downcast *not said here* | blushes | | | | | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition blush=Patient | | 8 | **remember** | | | the paternal home | | | | | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/4/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/4/37/) - ↑ back to [Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/4/)