Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 79

The walls glittered with pure ore, the ceiling was a single piece of ponderous spar, white as the driven snow, and from it hung a chandelier of mountain crystal and precious stones.

Who acts: walls · What happens: glitter, be, drive, hang · To what, where: walls, single piece, chandelier, snow

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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	2 walls	det
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 piece	nsubj
3	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 walls	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 ore	case
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ore	amod
6	ore	ore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glittered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ceiling	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ceiling	det
9	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ore	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 piece	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 piece	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 piece	amod
13	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 spar	case
15	ponderous	ponderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spar	amod
16	spar	spar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piece	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 white	punct
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 piece	amod
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 snow	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snow	det
21	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 snow	amod
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 white	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hung	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hung	cc
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hung	obl
27	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 piece	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 chandelier	det
29	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hung	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 crystal	case
31	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crystal	compound
32	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chandelier	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 stones	cc
34	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stones	amod
35	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crystal	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 piece	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glitter	participle		the walls not said here		with pure ore and the ceiling	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ore=Theme
2	is a	past	the walls	a single piece		of ponderous spar	tree rules
3	drive	participle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	hang	past	the walls not said here	a chandelier of mountain crystal and precious stones	snow		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chandelier=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 8, sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 79