Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 14
Opposite where Eva was sitting hung a life-size portrait of Duke Henry the Lion in tapestry.
Who acts: Eva · What happens: sit, portray · To what, where: size portrait, tapestry, Duke Henry
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 (Eva), 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 | Opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 3 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Opposite | advcl |
| 6 | hung | hung | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 portrait | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 portrait | det |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 size | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 life | punct |
| 10 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 portrait | compound |
| 11 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Henry | case |
| 13 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Henry | compound |
| 14 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 portrait | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Lion | det |
| 16 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Henry | appos |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tapestry | case |
| 18 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Opposite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | Eva | hung size portrait of Duke Henry | tapestry | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme in tapestry=Location | |||
| 3 | portray | Duke Henry | nom portrait «communication 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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