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title: Don Roderick grasped her hand and pressed it to his heart. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Don Roderick grasped her hand and pressed it to his heart. Who acts: Don. 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 41

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Don Roderick grasped her hand and pressed it to his heart.

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**Who acts:** Don · **What happens:** grasp, press · **To what, where:** hand, sign

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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 (Don), 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:pg77685:6:41
# text = Don Roderick grasped her hand and pressed it to his heart.
1	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	grasped	grasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grasp** | past | Don | Don's hand |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus |
| 2 | **press** | past | Don *not said here* | sign |  |  |  | to charm's heart | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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