Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 64
They enter a large, brilliantly lighted, magnificent chapel; the walls are of marble; the altar is of beaten gold, and its eternal lamp bathes all in a wondrous light.
Who acts: thunders, walls, altar, eternal lamp · What happens: enter, light, be, beat, bathe · To what, where: large magnificent chapel
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 (thunders, walls, altar, eternal lamp), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 enter | nsubj |
| 2 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chapel | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chapel | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lighted | punct |
| 6 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 7 lighted | advmod |
| 7 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 large | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 large | punct |
| 9 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chapel | amod |
| 10 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 enter | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 marble | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 marble | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 marble | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 marble | case |
| 16 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 enter | parataxis |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 gold | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 altar | det |
| 19 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gold | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 gold | cop |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 22 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 gold | amod |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marble | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bathes | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bathes | cc |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 lamp | nmod:poss |
| 27 | eternal | eternal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lamp | compound |
| 28 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bathes | nsubj |
| 29 | bathes | bathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 marble | parataxis |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 bathes | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 light | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 light | det |
| 33 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 light | amod |
| 34 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bathes | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 enter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | present | thunders = thunder | a large magnificent chapel | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chapel=Destination | ||||
| 2 | light | participle | thunders = thunder not said here | brilliantly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the walls | of marble and beaten gold | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | the altar | of beaten gold | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bathe | present | altar's eternal lamp | in a wondrous light; all property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in light=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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