Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 93
The throne was one ruby, the canopy a single pearl, the steps leading up to the throne were emeralds.
Who acts: throne, steps · What happens: be, lead up · To what, where: one ruby, emeralds
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 (throne, steps), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 throne | det |
| 2 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ruby | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ruby | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ruby | nummod |
| 5 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 canopy | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 canopy | det |
| 8 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ruby | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pearl | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pearl | amod |
| 11 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 canopy | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 steps | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 steps | det |
| 14 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 emeralds | nsubj |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 steps | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 leading | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 throne | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 throne | det |
| 19 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leading | obl |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 emeralds | cop |
| 21 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ruby | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ruby | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the throne | one ruby and the canopy | the canopy conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead up | gerund | the steps not said here | to the throne | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to throne=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the steps | emeralds | 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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