Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 92
At the upper end, under a majestic arch, stood Princess Ilse's throne.
What happens: stand · To what, where: throne, upper end
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 3 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 end | amod |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 arch | punct |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 arch | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 arch | det |
| 8 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 arch | amod |
| 9 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ilse | compound |
| 13 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 throne | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Ilse | case |
| 15 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Princess Ilse's throne | at the upper end and a majestic arch | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent throne=Theme at end=Destination |
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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