Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 16
Gold, silver, and precious stones lay in colossal heaps on every side, and the place sparkled and shone so, that even the anxious Schlosser's heart was filled with joy.
Who acts: precious stones · What happens: lay, sparkle, shine, fill · To what, where: colossal heaps, place, Schlosser heart, Gold
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (precious stones), 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 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 silver | punct |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 6 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stones | amod |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Gold | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heaps | case |
| 10 | colossal | colossal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heaps | amod |
| 11 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 side | det |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heaps | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 place | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | conj |
| 19 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 place | acl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shone | cc |
| 21 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sparkled | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 shone | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 filled | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 filled | mark |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 Schlosser | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Schlosser | det |
| 27 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Schlosser | amod |
| 28 | Schlosser | Schlosser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 heart | compound |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Schlosser | case |
| 30 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 filled | aux:pass |
| 32 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sparkled | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 joy | case |
| 34 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 filled | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | precious stones | colossal heaps on every side | the place conj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heap=Destination | |||
| 2 | sparkle | participle | the place not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shine | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | Schlosser heart | with joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument |
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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