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title: There was a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin, that seemed to send forth sweetness like the flowers around her. Who acts: breathing tenderness. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 28

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There was a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin, that seemed to send forth sweetness like the flowers around her.

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**Who acts:** breathing tenderness · **What happens:** be, seem, send · **To what, where:** sweetness

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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 (breathing tenderness), 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:pg77685:6:28
# text = There was a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin, that seemed to send forth sweetness like the flowers around her.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	around	around	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | a breathing tenderness and beauty in the sleeping virgin *not said here* | sweetness |  |  |  | like the flowers; around contest; forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetness=Theme |

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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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