Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 113
High on a rich catafalque before the great altar stands Eva's coffin in a blaze of light.
Who acts: light · What happens: stand, blaze · To what, where: coffin, blaze
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stands | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 catafalque | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 catafalque | det |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 catafalque | amod |
| 5 | catafalque | catafalque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 High | obl |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 altar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 altar | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 altar | amod |
| 9 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stands | obl |
| 10 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Eva | case |
| 13 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stands | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 blaze | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 blaze | det |
| 16 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stands | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 light | case |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blaze | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | Eva's coffin | a blaze of light | before the great altar | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme before altar=Destination | |||
| 2 | blaze | light | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent |
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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