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title: Gold and precious stones glittered in the soft starlight that illumi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Gold and precious stones glittered in the soft starlight that illuminated the vaulted chambers. Who acts: soft starlight. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 9

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Gold and precious stones glittered in the soft starlight that illuminated the vaulted chambers.

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**Who acts:** soft starlight · **What happens:** glitter, illuminate · **To what, where:** precious stones, soft starlight, vaulted chambers

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soft starlight), 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:pg74323:11:9
# text = Gold and precious stones glittered in the soft starlight that illuminated the vaulted chambers.
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	starlight	starlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	vaulted	vaulted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | participle |  | precious stones  Gold *not said here* |  | the soft starlight |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in starlight=Location |
| 2 | **illuminate** | past | the soft starlight | the vaulted chambers |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Destination |

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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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