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title: When Florinda had written these lines, she summoned a youthful esqui… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When Florinda had written these lines, she summoned a youthful esquire, who had been a page in the service of her father. Who acts: line, youthful esquire. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 79

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When Florinda had written these lines, she summoned a youthful esquire, who had been a page in the service of her father.

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**Who acts:** line, youthful esquire · **What happens:** write, summon, be, service · **To what, where:** Florinda, youthful esquire, page, service, father

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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 (line, youthful esquire), 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:pg77685:6:79
# text = When Florinda had written these lines, she summoned a youthful esquire, who had been a page in the service of her father.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	esquire	esquire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · perfect · passive |  | Florinda |  |  |  | this lines *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient line=Topic |
| 2 | **summon** | past | line | a youthful esquire |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent esquire=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | a youthful esquire | a page |  | the service of line's father |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **service** |  |  | line's father |  |  |  |  | nom service «act 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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