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title: Around the fountain were several of the damsels of the queen, who, c… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Around the fountain were several of the damsels of the queen, who, confident of the sacred privacy of the place, were yielding in that cool retreat to the indulgence prompted by the season and the hour. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 20

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Around the fountain were several of the damsels of the queen, who, confident of the sacred privacy of the place, were yielding in that cool retreat to the indulgence prompted by the season and the hour.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** be, confident, yield, prompt · **To what, where:** fountain, cool retreat, indulgence

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg77685:6:20
# text = Around the fountain were several of the damsels of the queen, who, confident of the sacred privacy of the place, were yielding in that cool retreat to the indulgence prompted by the season and the hour.
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	damsels	damsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	confident	confident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	privacy	privacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	yielding	yield	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	indulgence	indulgence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	prompted	prompt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the fountain |  | several *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **confident** |  | the queen |  |  |  |  | of the sacred privacy of the place | tree rules |
| 3 | **yield** | past · progressive |  |  |  | that cool retreat to the indulgence |  | of the damsels of the queen | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **prompt** | participle |  | the indulgence *not said here* |  |  | season |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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