Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 68
The imperial chamber, or throne-room, is brilliantly lighted; on the glittering golden throne, in imperial robes, sits Barbarossa, sad and silent.
What happens: light, glitter, sit · To what, where: imperial chamber, Barbarossa, glittering golden throne
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: 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 chamber | det |
| 2 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chamber | amod |
| 3 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 room | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 room | cc |
| 6 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 room | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 throne | punct |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chamber | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chamber | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lighted | aux:pass |
| 11 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 12 lighted | advmod |
| 12 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sits | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 throne | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 throne | det |
| 16 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 throne | amod |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 throne | amod |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sits | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 robes | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 robes | case |
| 21 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 robes | amod |
| 22 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 throne | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 throne | punct |
| 24 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lighted | conj |
| 25 | Barbarossa | Barbarossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sits | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sad | punct |
| 27 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sits | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 silent | cc |
| 29 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sad | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | present · passive | the imperial chamber or throne room | brilliantly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sit | present | Barbarossa | the glittering golden throne and imperial robes | sad property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent barbarossa=Theme on throne=Location |
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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