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title: Some lay asleep on the flowery bank; others sat on the margin of the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Some lay asleep on the flowery bank; others sat on the margin of the fountain, talking and laughing, as they bathed their feet in its limpid waters, and King Roderick beheld delicate limbs shining through the wave, that might rival the marble in whiteness. Who acts: Some, others, King, delicate limb
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 21

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Some lay asleep on the flowery bank; others sat on the margin of the fountain, talking and laughing, as they bathed their feet in its limpid waters, and King Roderick beheld delicate limbs shining through the wave, that might rival the marble in whiteness.

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**Who acts:** Some, others, King, delicate limbs, that · **What happens:** lay, sit, talk, laugh, bath, behold · **To what, where:** flowery bank, margin, feet, limpid waters, delicate limbs, wave

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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 (Some, others, King, delicate limbs), 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:pg77685:6:21
# text = Some lay asleep on the flowery bank; others sat on the margin of the fountain, talking and laughing, as they bathed their feet in its limpid waters, and King Roderick beheld delicate limbs shining through the wave, that might rival the marble in whiteness.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	flowery	flowery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	bathed	bath	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	limpid	limpid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
36	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	through	through	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	nsubj	_	_
44	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	rival	rival	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | Some |  |  | the flowery bank |  | asleep *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bank=Destination |
| 2 | **sit** | past | others |  |  | the margin of the fountain |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on margin=Location |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bath** | past | others *= other* | fountains's feet |  | foot's limpid waters |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **behold** | past | King | delicate limbs |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer limb=Stimulus |
| 7 | **shine** | gerund | delicate limbs *not said here* |  |  | the wave |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wave=Location |
| 8 | **rival** | might | that | the marble |  | whiteness |  |  | 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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