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title: This was an immense chamber, lighted by a chandelier of brilliants h… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: This was an immense chamber, lighted by a chandelier of brilliants hung in the centre, and single lamp-shaped rubies and carbuncles hung along the sides and in the corners. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 83

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This was an immense chamber, lighted by a chandelier of brilliants hung in the centre, and single lamp-shaped rubies and carbuncles hung along the sides and in the corners.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, light, hang, shape · **To what, where:** immense chamber, brilliants, centre, single shaped rubies, sides

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg74323:12:84
# text = This was an immense chamber, lighted by a chandelier of brilliants hung in the centre, and single lamp-shaped rubies and carbuncles hung along the sides and in the corners.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	brilliants	brilliant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	carbuncles	carbuncle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
27	along	along	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | a immense chamber |  |  |  | single shaped rubies and carbuncles *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **light** | participle |  | a immense chamber *not said here* |  |  |  | by a chandelier of brilliants | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hang** | participle |  | brilliants *not said here* |  | the centre |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location |
| 4 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | lamp *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **hang** | participle |  | single shaped rubies and carbuncles *not said here* |  | the sides and the corners |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along side=Location |

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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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