--- title: He gazed on the beautiful Florinda with fervid desire, and sought to… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: He gazed on the beautiful Florinda with fervid desire, and sought to read in her looks whether there was levity or wantonness in her bosom; but the eye of the damsel ever sunk beneath his gaze, and remained bent on the earth in virgin modesty. Who acts: heart, levity, eye, contest. A sentence of «Le --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [The Story of Florinda.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/) / 33 # Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 33 He gazed on the beautiful Florinda with fervid desire, and sought to read in her looks whether there was levity or wantonness in her bosom; but the eye of the damsel ever sunk beneath his gaze, and remained bent on the earth in virgin modesty. **Who acts:** heart, levity, eye, contest · **What happens:** gaze, seek, read, look, be, sink · **To what, where:** earth 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 (heart, levity, eye, contest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:6:33 # text = He gazed on the beautiful Florinda with fervid desire, and sought to read in her looks whether there was levity or wantonness in her bosom; but the eye of the damsel ever sunk beneath his gaze, and remained bent on the earth in virgin modesty. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Florinda Florinda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 fervid fervid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 in in SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 21 levity levity NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 wantonness wantonness NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 35 advmod _ _ 35 sunk sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 gaze gaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 virgin virgin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 modesty modesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gaze** | past | heart | | | | | with fervid desire; on the beautiful Florinda | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on florinda=Theme | | 2 | **seek** | past | heart *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **read** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **look** | present | heart *not said here* | | | | | contest *nmod:poss* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **be** | past | levity in contest's bosom or wantonness | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sink** | past | the eye of the damsel | | | | ever | beneath heart's gaze | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **bend** | past · passive | heart *not said here* | | | the earth | | in virgin modesty | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: on earth=Location | | 8 | **bosom** | | contest | | | | | | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **gaze** | | heart | | | | | | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/34/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Florinda.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/)