Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 56

And there arose a singular light, a dazzling splendour shone around the hunted animal, and unseen hands bore it softly below into the secure valley.

Who acts: unseen hands · What happens: arise, dazzle, shine, hunt, bear · To what, where: singular light, dazzling splendour, light, secure valley

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: who acts (unseen hands), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 arose	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 arose	expl
3	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 light	det
5	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arose	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 splendour	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 splendour	det
9	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 splendour	amod
10	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj
11	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 splendour	acl
12	around	around	ADP	_	15 animal	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 animal	det
14	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 animal	amod
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shone	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bore	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bore	cc
18	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hands	amod
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bore	nsubj
20	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arose	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bore	obj
22	softly	softly	ADV	_	23 below	advmod
23	below	below	ADV	_	20 bore	advmod
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 valley	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 valley	det
26	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 valley	amod
27	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bore	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arise	past		a singular light and a dazzling splendour	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme
2	dazzle	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	shine	participle		a dazzling splendour not said here		around the hunted animal	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around animal=Location
4	hunt	participle					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bear	past	unseen hands	light	the secure valley	below property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 56