Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 114
The picturesque ruin contrasted wonderfully in its dark grey masses with the cloudless blue of the heavens and the silver moonlight.
Who acts: picturesque ruin · What happens: contrast, mass · To what, where: picturesque ruin, dark grey
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (picturesque ruin), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ruin | det |
| 2 | picturesque | picturesque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ruin | amod |
| 3 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 masses | nsubj |
| 4 | contrasted | contrast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ruin | acl |
| 5 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 4 contrasted | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 grey | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 grey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grey | amod |
| 9 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contrasted | obl |
| 10 | masses | mass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 blue | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blue | det |
| 13 | cloudless | cloudless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blue | amod |
| 14 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 masses | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 heavens | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heavens | det |
| 17 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blue | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 moonlight | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moonlight | det |
| 20 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 moonlight | amod |
| 21 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heavens | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 masses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrast | participle | the picturesque ruin not said here | vision's dark grey | wonderfully property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | mass | present | the picturesque ruin | with the cloudless blue of the heavens and the silver moonlight | vn shake-22.3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with blue=Co-Patient |
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 and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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