Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 85
On each side of this regal chamber were sixteen colossal Norman arches, through which one saw, on the right advancing up it, a garden of every sort of fruit-tree, all bearing ripe fruits.
Who acts: one, right, all · What happens: be, see, advance, bear, sort · To what, where: sixteen colossal Norman arches, side, right, fulness, ripe fruits, fruit tree
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 (one, right, all), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arches | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chamber | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 chamber | det |
| 6 | regal | regal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chamber | amod |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arches | cop |
| 9 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 arches | nummod |
| 10 | colossal | colossal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 arches | amod |
| 11 | Norman | norman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 arches | amod |
| 12 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 saw | obl |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arches | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 right | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 right | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 right | det |
| 21 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 22 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 right | acl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 advancing | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 garden | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 right | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sort | case |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 sort | det |
| 30 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 garden | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 tree | case |
| 32 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tree | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 fruit | punct |
| 34 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sort | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bearing | punct |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 bearing | nsubj |
| 37 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 saw | conj |
| 38 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fruits | amod |
| 39 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 bearing | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 arches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sixteen colossal Norman arches | each side of this regal chamber | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | one | the right and a garden of every sort of fruit tree | sixteen colossal Norman arches | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | advance | gerund | the right and a garden of every sort of fruit tree not said here | fulness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | bear | gerund | all | ripe fruits | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sort | fruit tree | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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