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title: The soft glow of youth and health mantled on her cheek; her fringed… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The soft glow of youth and health mantled on her cheek; her fringed eyelashes scarcely covered their sleeping orbs; her moist and ruby lips were lightly parted, just revealing a gleam of her ivory teeth; while her innocent bosom rose and fell beneath her boddice, like the gentle swelling and sinking
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 27

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The soft glow of youth and health mantled on her cheek; her fringed eyelashes scarcely covered their sleeping orbs; her moist and ruby lips were lightly parted, just revealing a gleam of her ivory teeth; while her innocent bosom rose and fell beneath her boddice, like the gentle swelling and sinking of a tranquil sea.

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**Who acts:** soft glow, sleeping, youth, glow, tranquil sea · **What happens:** mantle, cover, orb, part, reveal, fall · **To what, where:** health, cheek, moist lips, gleam, boddice

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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 (soft glow, sleeping, youth, glow), 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:pg77685:6:27
# text = The soft glow of youth and health mantled on her cheek; her fringed eyelashes scarcely covered their sleeping orbs; her moist and ruby lips were lightly parted, just revealing a gleam of her ivory teeth; while her innocent bosom rose and fell beneath her boddice, like the gentle swelling and sinking of a tranquil sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	mantled	mantle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fringed	fringed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
16	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	orbs	orb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
23	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	ruby	ruby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	revealing	reveal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	ivory	ivory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
42	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
47	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	boddice	boddice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	like	like	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	sinking	sinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	tranquil	tranquil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mantle** | participle |  | health *not said here* |  | contest's cheek |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cover** | past | the soft glow of youth and health and contest's fringed eyelashes |  |  |  |  | contest's innocent bosom rose *conj*; scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **orb** | present | glow's sleeping |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **part** | past · passive |  | contest's moist lips |  |  |  | lightly *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **reveal** | gerund |  | a gleam of contest's ivory teeth |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gleam=Topic |
| 6 | **fall** | past | the soft glow of youth and health and contest's fringed eyelashes *not said here* |  |  | contest's boddice |  | like the gentle swelling and sinking of a tranquil sea | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath boddice=Location |
| 7 | **glow** |  | youth and health |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **sleep** |  | glow |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleeping «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **sink** |  | a tranquil sea |  |  |  |  |  | nom sinking «event intransitive»: of=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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