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title: The maiden knelt at his feet to examine his hand, and the touch of h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden knelt at his feet to examine his hand, and the touch of her slender fingers thrilled through his veins. Who acts: maiden. 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 37

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The maiden knelt at his feet to examine his hand, and the touch of her slender fingers thrilled through his veins.

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**Who acts:** maiden · **What happens:** kneel, examine, thrill, touch · **To what, where:** feet, hand, slender fingers, veins

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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 (maiden), 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:pg77685:6:37
# text = The maiden knelt at his feet to examine his hand, and the touch of her slender fingers thrilled through his veins.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	thrilled	thrill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kneel** | past | the maiden |  |  | heart's feet |  | the touch of thorn's slender fingers *advcl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 2 | **examine** | to-infinitive | the maiden *not said here* | heart's hand |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **thrill** | participle |  | thorn's slender fingers *not said here* |  | heart's veins |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **touch** |  |  | thorn's slender fingers |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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