Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 116

A lustre like a sunset in spring, or an Alpine glow on the eternal snow, floated around the heavenly form, and breathed on the rigid snow masses a soft glimmer like a fairy light.

Who acts: lustre · What happens: float, breathe, mass · To what, where: heavenly form, rigid snow, soft glimmer

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lustre), 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	2 lustre	det
2	lustre	lustre	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 masses	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 sunset	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sunset	det
5	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lustre	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sunset	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 glow	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 glow	cc
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 glow	det
11	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 glow	amod
12	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lustre	appos
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 snow	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snow	det
15	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snow	amod
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glow	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 floated	punct
18	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lustre	parataxis
19	around	around	ADP	_	22 form	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 form	det
21	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 form	amod
22	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 floated	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 breathed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 breathed	cc
25	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 floated	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 snow	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 snow	det
28	rigid	rigid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 snow	amod
29	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 breathed	obl
30	masses	mass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 glimmer	det
32	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 glimmer	amod
33	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 masses	obj
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 light	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 light	det
36	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 light	amod
37	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 masses	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 masses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	float	participle			the heavenly form		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around form=Trajectory
2	breathe	participle			the rigid snow		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on snow=Destination
3	mass	present	a lustre like a sunset in spring	a soft glimmer		like a fairy light	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glimmer=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 116