Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 31
There the most unheard-of splendour rivets his astonished gaze; the floors, walls, and ceilings glitter with gold, silver, and precious stones; the lofty arches are supported by columns of mountain crystal; while carbuncles illuminate the vast chambers with a soft light.
Who acts: unheard splendour, ceilings, columns, carbuncles, lover · What happens: rivet, glitter, support, illuminate, gaze · To what, where: astonished gaze, precious stones, lofty arches, vast chambers
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unheard splendour, ceilings, columns, carbuncles), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 rivets | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 splendour | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 unheard | advmod |
| 4 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 splendour | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 splendour | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 splendour | case |
| 7 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rivets | nsubj |
| 8 | rivets | rivet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 10 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gaze | amod |
| 11 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rivets | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 floors | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floors | det |
| 14 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rivets | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 walls | punct |
| 16 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 floors | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glitter | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 glitter | cc |
| 19 | ceilings | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 glitter | nsubj |
| 20 | glitter | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rivets | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 glitter | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 silver | punct |
| 24 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gold | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stones | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stones | cc |
| 27 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stones | amod |
| 28 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 glitter | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 supported | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 arches | det |
| 31 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 arches | amod |
| 32 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 supported | aux:pass |
| 34 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rivets | parataxis |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 columns | case |
| 36 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 supported | obl:agent |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 crystal | case |
| 38 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 crystal | compound |
| 39 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 columns | nmod |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 illuminate | punct |
| 41 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 43 illuminate | mark |
| 42 | carbuncles | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 illuminate | nsubj |
| 43 | illuminate | illuminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 supported | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 chambers | det |
| 45 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 chambers | amod |
| 46 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 illuminate | obj |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 light | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 light | det |
| 49 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 light | amod |
| 50 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 illuminate | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rivets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rivet | present | the unheard splendour | lover's astonished gaze | there | the floors and walls obl | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaze=Patient | ||
| 2 | glitter | present | ceilings | precious stones | with gold and silver | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme | |||
| 3 | support | present · passive | columns of mountain crystal | the lofty arches | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | illuminate | present | carbuncles | the vast chambers | with a soft light | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent chamber=Destination with light=Theme | |||
| 5 | gaze | lover | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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