Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 94
Near the throne, in front of an arch, stood a table of silver, and two chairs of mountain crystal beside it.
What happens: stand · To what, where: table, throne
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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 throne | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 throne | det |
| 3 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 front | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throne | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 arch | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 arch | det |
| 9 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 front | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 throne | punct |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 table | det |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 table | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 chairs | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 chairs | cc |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 chairs | nummod |
| 19 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 crystal | case |
| 21 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crystal | compound |
| 22 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chairs | nmod |
| 23 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 crystal | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a table of silver | the throne in front of a arch | two chairs of mountain crystal beside throne obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme near throne=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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