Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 4
The magic of this picture is greatly enhanced by the soft lights of sunset, and the dim, semi-transparent mists, which like a floating veil half hide its beauties, and fill the excited fancy with a mysterious presage of that poetic something we call the Past.
Who acts: soft lights, we · What happens: enhance, float, hide, fill, call, light · To what, where: magic, dim semi-transparent mists, excited fancy, Past, sunset, something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soft lights, we), 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 | 2 magic | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enhanced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 picture | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 picture | det |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 magic | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 enhanced | aux:pass |
| 7 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 8 enhanced | advmod |
| 8 | enhanced | enhance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 lights | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lights | det |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lights | amod |
| 12 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 enhanced | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sunset | case |
| 14 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lights | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mists | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mists | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mists | det |
| 18 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mists | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dim | punct |
| 20 | semi-transparent | semi-transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mists | amod |
| 21 | mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 enhanced | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hide | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 hide | obj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 half | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 half | det |
| 26 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 half | amod |
| 27 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 half | compound |
| 28 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 29 hide | obl |
| 29 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 mists | conj |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 beauties | nmod:poss |
| 31 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hide | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fill | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fill | cc |
| 34 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 enhanced | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 fancy | det |
| 36 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fancy | amod |
| 37 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fill | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 presage | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 presage | det |
| 40 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 presage | amod |
| 41 | presage | presage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fill | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 something | case |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 something | nsubj |
| 44 | poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 something | amod |
| 45 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 41 presage | nmod |
| 46 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 call | nsubj |
| 47 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 something | acl:relcl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Past | det |
| 49 | Past | Past | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 call | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 enhanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enhance | present · passive | the soft lights of sunset | the magic of this picture | the dim semi-transparent mists obl; greatly property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hide | present | the soft lights of sunset not said here | the dim semi-transparent mists | like a floating veil half; magic's beauties obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fill | infinitive | the excited fancy | with a mysterious presage of something that | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient with presage=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | call | present | we | the Past | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent past=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | light | sunset | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | presage | something that | nom presage «feeling 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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