Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 91
Above each seat was a statue of a fairy of the Harz, alternately in mountain crystal and snowy alabaster.
What happens: be · To what, where: statue, seat
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 | _ | 3 seat | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 seat | det |
| 3 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 statue | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 statue | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 statue | det |
| 6 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fairy | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fairy | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 statue | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Harz | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Harz | det |
| 12 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fairy | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 alabaster | punct |
| 14 | alternately | alternately | ADV | _ | 20 alabaster | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 alabaster | case |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 alabaster | compound |
| 17 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 alabaster | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 snowy | cc |
| 19 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crystal | conj |
| 20 | alabaster | alabaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 statue | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 statue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a statue and mountain crystal alabaster | each seat | of a fairy of the Harz; mountain crystal alabaster conj | tree rules |
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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