Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 115
A peculiar light shone out of an arched chamber; he followed it, and there sat the pale maiden, adorned with a wreath of white roses in her hair.
Who acts: peculiar light, light · What happens: shine, arch, follow, sit, adorn · To what, where: arched chamber, vision
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 (peculiar light, light), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 light | det |
| 2 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | compound |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | nsubj |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 chamber | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chamber | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chamber | det |
| 8 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 chamber | amod |
| 9 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 followed | nsubj |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shone | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 followed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sat | cc |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 sat | advmod |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shone | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 19 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maiden | amod |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sat | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 adorned | punct |
| 22 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 maiden | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 wreath | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wreath | det |
| 25 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 adorned | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 roses | case |
| 27 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 roses | amod |
| 28 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wreath | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 hair | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hair | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 roses | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | a peculiar light | a arched chamber | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out chamber=Location | ||||
| 2 | arch | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | follow | past | light | vision | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | a peculiar light not said here | there | maiden property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | adorn | participle | a peculiar light not said here | with a wreath of white roses in moon's hair | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wreath=Theme |
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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