Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 79
And in fancy he pictured the old Schloss in its former state, throned on the proud rock, with giant round tower, and arched entrance gates, and Gothic windows, the battlements covered with soldiers in steel harness, with sword and lance.
Who acts: tradition · What happens: picture, throne, arch, cover · To what, where: old Schloss, fancy, proud rock, Gothic windows
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (tradition), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pictured | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 fancy | case |
| 3 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pictured | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pictured | nsubj |
| 5 | pictured | picture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Schloss | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Schloss | amod |
| 8 | Schloss | schloss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pictured | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 state | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 state | nmod:poss |
| 11 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 state | amod |
| 12 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Schloss | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 throned | punct |
| 14 | throned | throne | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Schloss | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 17 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rock | amod |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tower | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tower | case |
| 21 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tower | amod |
| 22 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tower | amod |
| 23 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throned | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gates | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gates | cc |
| 26 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 gates | amod |
| 27 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gates | compound |
| 28 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pictured | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 covered | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 covered | cc |
| 31 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 windows | amod |
| 32 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 battlements | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 battlements | det |
| 35 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 windows | conj |
| 36 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pictured | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 soldiers | case |
| 38 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 covered | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 harness | case |
| 40 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 harness | compound |
| 41 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 covered | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sword | punct |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 sword | case |
| 44 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 covered | parataxis |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 lance | cc |
| 46 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sword | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pictured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | past | tradition | the old Schloss | fancy | in Schloss's former state; arched entrance gates obl | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent schloss=Theme | ||
| 2 | throne | participle | tradition not said here | the proud rock | with giant round tower | tree rules | |||
| 3 | arch | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cover | participle · passive | Gothic windows and the battlements | with soldiers; in steel harness; sword and lance parataxis | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in harness=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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