Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 79
How solemnly the old ruinated fortress looks down upon the plain bathed in the rich lights of sunset.
Who acts: old ruinated fortress · What happens: ruinat, look down, bath, light · To what, where: plain, rich lights, sunset
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old ruinated fortress), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 solemnly | advmod |
| 2 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 7 looks | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fortress | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fortress | amod |
| 5 | ruinated | ruinat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fortress | amod |
| 6 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looks | nsubj |
| 7 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 looks | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 plain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plain | det |
| 11 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looks | obl |
| 12 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 plain | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 lights | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lights | det |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lights | amod |
| 16 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bathed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sunset | case |
| 18 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lights | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruinat | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | look down | present | the old ruinated fortress | upon the plain; down, solemnly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon plain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bath | participle | the plain not said here | the rich lights of sunset | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | light | sunset | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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