Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 127

At last one of the surveyors of the mines remarked how wonderful it was that many pebbles possessed such brilliant colours, and it was to be regretted that they faded in a few days.

Who acts: many pebbles, colours · What happens: remark, possess, be, fade · To what, where: mines, such brilliant colours, many pebbles

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many pebbles, colours), 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	_	3 one	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 regretted	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 surveyors	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 surveyors	det
6	surveyors	surveyor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mines	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mines	det
9	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 surveyors	nmod
10	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 mines	acl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 wonderful	advmod
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 remarked	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wonderful	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 regretted	cop
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 regretted	mark
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pebbles	amod
17	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 regretted	nsubj
18	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pebbles	acl
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 colours	amod
20	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 colours	amod
21	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 possessed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 regretted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 regretted	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 regretted	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 regretted	aux
26	to	to	PART	_	28 regretted	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 regretted	aux:pass
28	regretted	regret	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 faded	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 faded	nsubj
31	faded	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 regretted	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 days	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 days	det
34	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 days	amod
35	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 faded	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 regretted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remark speech: assert	participle		the mines not said here		wonderful property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	possess	participle	many pebbles not said here	such brilliant colours			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme
3	is	past · passive		many pebbles		at last one of the surveyors of the mines; astonishment nsubj:pass; regret property	tree rules
4	fade	past	colours = colour		day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 127

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 127