Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 90

When they had gone through several dark, gloomy passages, they entered a wonderfully lighted chamber, in the centre of which stood a chest filled with gold and treasures, from which the maiden's companion, at her command, must take as many pieces of money as were sufficient for relief from his embarrassment.

Who acts: caves, centre, maiden, sympathy · What happens: go, enter, light, stand, fill, take · To what, where: several dark gloomy passages, lighted chamber, chest, command, many pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (caves, centre, maiden, sympathy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	10 passages	case
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 passages	amod
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 passages	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dark	punct
9	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 passages	amod
10	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 entered	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 entered	nsubj
13	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chamber	det
15	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	16 lighted	advmod
16	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 chamber	amod
17	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 centre	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 centre	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 centre	det
21	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entered	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 stood	nsubj
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 centre	acl:relcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chest	det
26	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obj
27	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 chest	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 filled	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 treasures	cc
31	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gold	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 companion	punct
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 companion	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 maiden	det
36	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 companion	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 maiden	case
38	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 command	punct
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 command	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 command	nmod:poss
42	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 take	punct
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 take	aux
45	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 centre	parataxis
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 many	advmod
47	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 pieces	amod
48	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 take	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 money	case
50	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pieces	nmod
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 sufficient	mark
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 sufficient	cop
53	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 take	advcl
54	for	for	ADP	_	55 relief	case
55	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sufficient	obl
56	from	from	ADP	_	58 embarrassment	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 embarrassment	nmod:poss
58	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 relief	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	caves = cave		several dark gloomy passages		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through passage=Initial_Location
2	enter	past	caves = cave	a lighted chamber		the centre parataxis	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination
3	light	participle				wonderfully property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past	the centre	a chest	maiden's command	the maiden's companion obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chest=Theme at command=Destination
5	fill	participle		a chest not said here		with gold and treasures	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gold=Instrument
6	take	must		many pieces of money			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
7	is	past				for relief from sympathy's embarrassment; sufficient property	tree rules
8	command		maiden				nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent
9	embarrass		sympathy				nom embarrassment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 90

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 90