Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 83
This was an immense chamber, lighted by a chandelier of brilliants hung in the centre, and single lamp-shaped rubies and carbuncles hung along the sides and in the corners.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, light, hang, shape · To what, where: immense chamber, brilliants, centre, single shaped rubies, sides
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 chamber | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chamber | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chamber | det |
| 4 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chamber | amod |
| 5 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lighted | punct |
| 7 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chamber | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 chandelier | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chandelier | det |
| 10 | chandelier | chandelier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lighted | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 brilliants | case |
| 12 | brilliants | brilliant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chandelier | nmod |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 brilliants | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 centre | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 centre | det |
| 16 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rubies | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rubies | cc |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rubies | amod |
| 20 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shaped | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 lamp | punct |
| 22 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 rubies | amod |
| 23 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chamber | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 carbuncles | cc |
| 25 | carbuncles | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rubies | conj |
| 26 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 rubies | acl |
| 27 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 sides | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sides | det |
| 29 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hung | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 corners | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 corners | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 corners | det |
| 33 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sides | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chamber | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a immense chamber | single shaped rubies and carbuncles parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | light | participle | a immense chamber not said here | by a chandelier of brilliants | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hang | participle | brilliants not said here | the centre | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location | ||||
| 4 | shape | participle | lamp compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | hang | participle | single shaped rubies and carbuncles not said here | the sides and the corners | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along side=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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