Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 76

It was a large and richly-furnished chamber, hung with rare paintings, but the most charming pictures of all were the views its windows commanded.

Who acts: invalid, charming pictures, windows · What happens: furnish, be, hang, command · To what, where: large furnished chamber, views · 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 (invalid, charming pictures, windows), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chamber	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chamber	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chamber	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chamber	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 richly	cc
6	richly	richly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 large	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 richly	punct
8	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 chamber	amod
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hung	punct
11	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 chamber	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 paintings	case
13	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 paintings	amod
14	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hung	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 views	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 views	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pictures	det
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 pictures	advmod
19	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pictures	compound
20	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 views	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 pictures	obl
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 views	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 views	det
25	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chamber	conj
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 windows	nmod:poss
27	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 commanded	nsubj
28	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 views	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 chamber	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	furnish	participle				vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	invalid	a large furnished chamber but the views		tree rules
3	hang	participle		a large furnished chamber but the views not said here	with rare paintings	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the charming pictures	the views		tree rules
5	command	past	invalid's windows	the views not said here		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent view=Eventuality

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 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 76