--- title: Her eyes flashed fire; Her proud lips quivered with queenly ire; Her… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Her eyes flashed fire; Her proud lips quivered with queenly ire; Her hand to the Spirits she raised and said, And her sun browned cheeks were aflame with red: "I am pure!--I am pure as falling snow! Who acts: eyes, Swift, sun, cheeks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Swift, sun, cheeks), 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:pg8122:8:21 # text = Her eyes flashed fire; Her proud lips quivered with queenly ire; Her hand to the Spirits she raised and said, And her sun browned cheeks were aflame with red: "I am pure!--I am pure as falling snow! 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flashed flash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 quivered quiver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 queenly queenly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 ire ire NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 And and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 browned brown VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 aflame aflame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 43 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 44 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ _ 45 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flash** | past | Swift's eyes | fire | | | | Swift's proud lips and Swift's hand to the Spirits *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **quiver** | participle | | Swift's proud lips and Swift's hand to the Spirits *not said here* | | | | with queenly ire | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **raise** | past | Swift | the Spirits *not said here* | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Swift *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **brown** | past | Swift's sun | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | cheeks | | | | | with red; aflame *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Wiwâstè | | | | | pure *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Wiwâstè | | | | | pure *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **fall** *in a quote* | gerund | Wiwâstè *not said here* | snow | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient snow=Result | 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 Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/22/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/8/)