Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 15
Every object was draped in black, and on the table stood three mourning lamps.
What happens: drape, stand · To what, where: object, black, three mourning lamps, table
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 draped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 draped | aux:pass |
| 4 | draped | drape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 black | case |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 draped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 draped | conj |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 lamps | nummod |
| 14 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lamps | compound |
| 15 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 draped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drape | past · passive | every object | black | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in black=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | three mourning lamps | the table | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme on table=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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