Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 29
On the fatal beam over the foaming water stood the devil himself, with all the terrors peculiar to his dark majesty.
What happens: stand · To what, where: devil, fatal beam
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 beam | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beam | det |
| 3 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beam | amod |
| 4 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 7 | foaming | foaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | compound |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beam | nmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 devil | det |
| 11 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 stood | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 peculiar | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 peculiar | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 peculiar | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 peculiar | det |
| 17 | terrors | terror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 peculiar | compound |
| 18 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 majesty | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 majesty | amod |
| 22 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peculiar | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the devil | the fatal beam over the foaming water | with all terrors peculiar to child's dark majesty; child obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent devil=Theme on beam=Destination |
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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