Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 84
Then the door was opened softly; a light form wrapped in a white veil, with a gleaming diadem in her hair, came forward to the bed.
What happens: open, wrap, gleam, come forward · To what, where: door, light form, white veil, bed
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | aux:pass |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 5 opened | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 form | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 9 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 form | amod |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | parataxis |
| 11 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 form | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 veil | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 veil | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 veil | amod |
| 15 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrapped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 diadem | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 diadem | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 diadem | det |
| 19 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 diadem | amod |
| 20 | diadem | diadem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrapped | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hair | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 diadem | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 form | conj |
| 26 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 bed | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bed | det |
| 29 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the door | then | a light form parataxis; softly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | wrap | participle | a light form not said here | a white veil | with a gleaming diadem in Many's hair | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in veil=Destination | |||
| 3 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | come forward | past | the bed | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_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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