Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 94
Really and truly there it stood, with white walls, colossal round tower at the entrance, battlements shimmering in the sunlight, and squires glittering in steel, with sword and lance.
Who acts: wonder, battlements, squires · What happens: stand, shimmer, glitter · To what, where: sunlight, steel
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 (wonder, battlements, squires), 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 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 6 stood | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 there | cc |
| 3 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 there | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Really | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walls | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 walls | case |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 walls | amod |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tower | punct |
| 12 | colossal | colossal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tower | amod |
| 13 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tower | amod |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walls | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 entrance | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 entrance | det |
| 17 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tower | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 battlements | punct |
| 19 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tower | appos |
| 20 | shimmering | shimmer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 battlements | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sunlight | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sunlight | det |
| 23 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shimmering | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 glittering | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 glittering | cc |
| 26 | squires | squire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 glittering | nsubj |
| 27 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stood | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 steel | case |
| 29 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 glittering | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sword | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 sword | case |
| 32 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 glittering | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lance | cc |
| 34 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sword | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | wonder | there | with white walls and colossal round tower at the entrance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | shimmer | gerund | battlements not said here | the sunlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location | ||||
| 3 | glitter | gerund | squires | steel | with sword and lance | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sword=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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