Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 91
The rarest exotics beautified the table, and stood in graceful baskets and vases in every part of the apartment.
Who acts: rarest exotics · What happens: beautify, stand · To what, where: table, graceful baskets
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 (rarest exotics), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 exotics | det |
| 2 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 exotics | amod |
| 3 | exotics | exotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beautified | nsubj |
| 4 | beautified | beautify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beautified | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautified | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 baskets | case |
| 11 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 baskets | amod |
| 12 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vases | cc |
| 14 | vases | vas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 baskets | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 part | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 part | det |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 apartment | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 apartment | det |
| 20 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beautify | past | the rarest exotics | the table | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent table=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the rarest exotics not said here | graceful baskets and vases | in every part of the apartment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in basket=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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