Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 34
At their head walked the king himself, in gold and purple, and wearing a sparkling crown.
What happens: walk, wear · To what, where: king, head, sparkling crown
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gold | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 purple | cc |
| 12 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gold | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wearing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wearing | cc |
| 15 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 walked | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crown | det |
| 17 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crown | amod |
| 18 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wearing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the king | dwarfs's head | in gold; king obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent king=Theme at head=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | wear | gerund | a sparkling crown | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
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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