Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 75
White temples with ivy-entwined pillars glittered behind the hedges.
What happens: entwine, glitter · To what, where: entwined pillars, hedges, White temples
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. 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 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 temples | amod |
| 2 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pillars | case |
| 4 | ivy | ivy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entwined | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ivy | punct |
| 6 | entwined | entwine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pillars | amod |
| 7 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 temples | nmod |
| 8 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pillars | acl |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 hedges | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hedges | det |
| 11 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glittered | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 temples | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entwine | participle | ivy compound | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | glitter | participle | entwined pillars not said here | the hedges | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind hedge=Location |
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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