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title: The damsel rose from the earth where she had hitherto knelt, and her… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The damsel rose from the earth where she had hitherto knelt, and her whole countenance glowed with virtuous indignation. Who acts: damsel, whole countenance. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 65

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The damsel rose from the earth where she had hitherto knelt, and her whole countenance glowed with virtuous indignation.

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**Who acts:** damsel, whole countenance · **What happens:** rise, kneel, glow · **To what, where:** earth, mistress

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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 (damsel, whole countenance), 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:pg77685:6:65
# text = The damsel rose from the earth where she had hitherto knelt, and her whole countenance glowed with virtuous indignation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	glowed	glow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the damsel |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **kneel** | past · perfect · passive |  | mistress |  |  |  | hitherto *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **glow** | participle | mistress's whole countenance |  |  |  |  | with virtuous indignation | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with indignation=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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