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title: They enter a large, brilliantly lighted, magnificent chapel; the wal… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They enter a large, brilliantly lighted, magnificent chapel; the walls are of marble; the altar is of beaten gold, and its eternal lamp bathes all in a wondrous light. Who acts: thunders, walls, altar, eternal lamp. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends an
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 64

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They enter a large, brilliantly lighted, magnificent chapel; the walls are of marble; the altar is of beaten gold, and its eternal lamp bathes all in a wondrous light.

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**Who acts:** thunders, walls, altar, eternal lamp · **What happens:** enter, light, be, beat, bathe · **To what, where:** large magnificent chapel

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thunders, walls, altar, eternal lamp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:10:64
# text = They enter a large, brilliantly lighted, magnificent chapel; the walls are of marble; the altar is of beaten gold, and its eternal lamp bathes all in a wondrous light.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	eternal	eternal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	bathes	bathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
30	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | present | thunders *= thunder* | a large magnificent chapel |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chapel=Destination |
| 2 | **light** | participle | thunders *= thunder* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brilliantly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the walls |  |  |  |  | of marble and beaten gold | tree rules |
| 4 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | the altar |  |  |  |  | of beaten gold | tree rules |
| 6 | **bathe** | present | altar's eternal lamp |  |  |  |  | in a wondrous light; all *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in light=Theme |

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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.

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**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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