Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 6

The halls trodden by royalty, the boudoirs where Beauty ruled eight hundred years ago, are fallen into green ruin; the death-owl hoots, and bats and lizards house among their overgrown stones.

Who acts: Beauty · What happens: tread, rule, fall · To what, where: halls, green ruin

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 (Beauty), 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 halls	det
2	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fallen	nsubj
3	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 halls	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 royalty	case
5	royalty	royalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trodden	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boudoirs	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boudoirs	det
8	boudoirs	boudoir	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 royalty	appos
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 ruled	advmod
10	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ruled	nsubj
11	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boudoirs	acl:relcl
12	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hundred	compound
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ago	obl:unmarked
15	ago	ago	ADV	_	11 ruled	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 halls	punct
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fallen	aux:pass
18	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 ruin	case
20	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ruin	amod
21	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fallen	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hoots	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hoots	det
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 owl	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 death	punct
26	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hoots	compound
27	hoots	hoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 house	nmod:poss
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bats	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bats	cc
30	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hoots	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lizards	cc
32	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hoots	conj
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fallen	obj
34	among	among	ADP	_	37 stones	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 stones	nmod:poss
36	overgrown	overgrown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 stones	amod
37	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fallen	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tread	participle		the halls not said here		by royalty	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by royalty=Trajectory
2	rule	past	Beauty			ago property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fall	present · passive		the halls	green ruin	among beauties's overgrown stones; the owl hoots and bats and lizards's house obj	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.

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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 6