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title: In their playful eagerness they half disrobed the innocent Florinda… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In their playful eagerness they half disrobed the innocent Florinda before she was aware. Who acts: companions, contest. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 30

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In their playful eagerness they half disrobed the innocent Florinda before she was aware.

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**Who acts:** companions, contest · **What happens:** disrobe, be · **To what, where:** innocent Florinda, playful eagerness

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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 (companions, contest), 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:pg77685:6:30
# text = In their playful eagerness they half disrobed the innocent Florinda before she was aware.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	playful	playful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	advmod	_	_
7	disrobed	disrobe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **disrobe** | past | companions *= companion* | the innocent Florinda |  | companions's playful eagerness |  | half *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent florinda=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | contest |  |  |  |  | aware *property* | 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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