Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 79
Above her milk-white regal brow glittered a diadem of brilliants and sapphires.
What happens: glitter · To what, where: diadem, white regal brow
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: 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 7 brow | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brow | nmod:poss |
| 3 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 milk | punct |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brow | amod |
| 6 | regal | regal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brow | compound |
| 7 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glittered | obl |
| 8 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 diadem | det |
| 10 | diadem | diadem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glittered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 brilliants | case |
| 12 | brilliants | brilliant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 diadem | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sapphires | cc |
| 14 | sapphires | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brilliants | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 glittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | past | a diadem of brilliants and sapphires | Ilse's white regal brow | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent diadem=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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