Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 79
Richly-worked tapestry covered the walls, the softest cushions invited to repose, the light, like a soft twilight, fell through green windows, and composed the spirit to a sweet calmness and peace.
Who acts: worked tapestry, softest cushions · What happens: work, cover, invite, repose, fall, compose · To what, where: walls, softest cushions, green windows, spirit
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: who acts (worked tapestry, softest cushions), 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 | Richly | richly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 worked | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Richly | punct |
| 3 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tapestry | amod |
| 4 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 walls | det |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cushions | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cushions | det |
| 10 | softest | soft | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 cushions | amod |
| 11 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walls | conj |
| 12 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cushions | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 repose | mark |
| 14 | repose | repose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 invited | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 light | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 light | det |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walls | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 twilight | punct |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 twilight | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 twilight | det |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 twilight | amod |
| 22 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walls | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | conj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 windows | case |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 windows | amod |
| 27 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fell | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 composed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 composed | cc |
| 30 | composed | compose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 spirit | det |
| 32 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 composed | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 calmness | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 calmness | det |
| 35 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 calmness | amod |
| 36 | calmness | calmness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 composed | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 peace | cc |
| 38 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 calmness | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | participle | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | cover | past | worked tapestry | the walls and the softest cushions and the light and a soft twilight | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Destination | ||||
| 3 | invite | participle | the softest cushions not said here | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | repose not said to happen | to-infinitive | the softest cushions not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | worked tapestry not said here | green windows | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through window=Location | ||||
| 6 | compose | past | worked tapestry not said here | the spirit | to a sweet calmness and peace | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Result |
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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