Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 43

Slowly and in indescribable purity the harmonies echoed through the mountains, and just where Ernst stood the sweet tones trembled in the air, as if the whole vale were one great harp.

Who acts: harmonies, Ernst, whole vale · What happens: echo, stand, tremble, be · To what, where: indescribable purity, sweet tones, air, one great harp

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harmonies, Ernst, whole vale), 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	Slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 echoed	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 echoed	cc
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 purity	case
4	indescribable	indescribable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 purity	amod
5	purity	purity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 echoed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 harmonies	det
7	harmonies	harmony	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 echoed	nsubj
8	echoed	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 mountains	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountains	det
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 echoed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stood	cc
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 stood	advmod
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 stood	advmod
16	Ernst	Ernst	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 echoed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tones	det
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tones	amod
20	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stood	obj
21	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 tones	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trembled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 harp	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 harp	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 harp	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 vale	det
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 vale	amod
30	vale	vale	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 harp	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 harp	cop
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 harp	nummod
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 harp	amod
34	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 echoed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	echo	past	the harmonies		indescribable purity	through the mountains; slowly property	vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in purity=Location
2	stand	past	Ernst	the sweet tones			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus
3	tremble	participle		the sweet tones not said here	the air		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the whole vale	one great harp			tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/17/43/

🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 43