Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 6
The precipitous wall of the Sachsenstein stood in shadowy contrast against the star-powdered blue, and seemed in the magical moonlight as if silvered.
Who acts: precipitous wall · What happens: stand, powder, seem, silver · To what, where: shadowy contrast, magical moonlight
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: who acts (precipitous wall), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 2 | precipitous | precipitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wall | amod |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sachsenstein | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sachsenstein | det |
| 6 | Sachsenstein | Sachsenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wall | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 contrast | case |
| 9 | shadowy | shadowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 contrast | amod |
| 10 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 11 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 15 powdered | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 powdered | det |
| 13 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 powdered | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 star | punct |
| 15 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | advcl |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 powdered | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seemed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seemed | cc |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 moonlight | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moonlight | det |
| 22 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 moonlight | amod |
| 23 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seemed | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 silvered | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 silvered | mark |
| 26 | silvered | silver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 seemed | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the precipitous wall of the Sachsenstein | shadowy contrast | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in contrast=Location | ||||
| 2 | powder | participle | the precipitous wall of the Sachsenstein not said here | star compound; blue property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the magical moonlight | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | silver a condition, not said to happen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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