Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 83
Around the costly chamber, near the magnificent walls, stood all sorts of animals in life-size, in beaten gold, a perfect imitation of nature.
What happens: stand, beat, sort, imitate · To what, where: sorts, costly chamber, animals, nature
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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 4 chamber | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chamber | det |
| 3 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chamber | amod |
| 4 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 walls | punct |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 walls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 walls | det |
| 8 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 walls | amod |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chamber | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chamber | punct |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sorts | det |
| 13 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 animals | case |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sorts | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 size | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 size | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 life | punct |
| 19 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gold | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 22 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 gold | amod |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 imitation | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 imitation | det |
| 26 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 imitation | amod |
| 27 | imitation | imitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gold | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 nature | case |
| 29 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 imitation | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | all sorts of animals | the costly chamber and the magnificent walls | in life size; in beaten gold | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sort=Theme around chamber=Destination | |||
| 2 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sort | animals | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | imitate | nature | nom imitation «cognition transitive»: of=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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