Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 32

On a low mountain above the town stands Blankenburg[1] Schloss, white and shining in the summer's sun, and looks out on the vast plain, the Devil's Wall, and the mountains.

What happens: stand, shine, look out · To what, where: Blankenburg Schloss, low mountain, sun, vast plain

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 mountain	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mountain	det
3	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mountain	amod
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stands	obl
5	above	above	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mountain	nmod
8	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Blankenburg	Blankenburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Schloss	compound
10	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 1	punct
11	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 Schloss	discourse
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 1	punct
13	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stands	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 white	punct
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Schloss	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shining	cc
17	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 white	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 sun	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 summer	det
20	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sun	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 summer	case
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shining	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looks	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looks	cc
25	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stands	parataxis
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 looks	compound:prt
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 plain	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 plain	det
29	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 plain	amod
30	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looks	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Wall	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Devil	det
33	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Wall	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Devil	case
35	Wall	Wall	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 plain	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 mountains	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 mountains	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 mountains	det
39	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 looks	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present	Blankenburg Schloss	a low mountain above the town		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location
2	shine	gerund		the summer's sun		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location
3	look out	present		the vast plain the Devil's Wall	the mountains conj	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 32