Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 43
He sits in an ivory chair by a marble table, his head resting upon his arm, and his long red beard has overgrown the whole table like moss.
Who acts: tradition, head · What happens: sit, rest, overgrow · To what, where: ivory chair, arm, long red beard
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 (tradition, head), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 chair | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chair | det |
| 5 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chair | compound |
| 6 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 table | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 9 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 table | compound |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 head | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 table | appos |
| 14 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 head | acl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 arm | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arm | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 overgrown | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 overgrown | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 beard | nmod:poss |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beard | amod |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beard | amod |
| 23 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overgrown | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 overgrown | aux |
| 25 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sits | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 table | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 table | amod |
| 28 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overgrown | obj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 moss | case |
| 30 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 table | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | tradition | a ivory chair | by a marble table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | |||
| 2 | rest | gerund | tradition's head not said here | tradition's arm | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon arm=Location | ||||
| 3 | overgrow | present · perfect · passive | tradition's long red beard | the whole table obj | tree rules |
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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