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title: The walls glittered with pure ore, the ceiling was a single piece of… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The walls glittered with pure ore, the ceiling was a single piece of ponderous spar, white as the driven snow, and from it hung a chandelier of mountain crystal and precious stones. Who acts: walls. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8,
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 79

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The walls glittered with pure ore, the ceiling was a single piece of ponderous spar, white as the driven snow, and from it hung a chandelier of mountain crystal and precious stones.

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**Who acts:** walls · **What happens:** glitter, be, drive, hang · **To what, where:** walls, single piece, chandelier, snow

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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:pg74323:25:79
# text = The walls glittered with pure ore, the ceiling was a single piece of ponderous spar, white as the driven snow, and from it hung a chandelier of mountain crystal and precious stones.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ore	ore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	ponderous	ponderous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spar	spar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
27	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **glitter** | participle |  | the walls *not said here* |  |  |  | with pure ore and the ceiling | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ore=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the walls | a single piece |  |  |  | of ponderous spar | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hang** | past | the walls *not said here* | a chandelier of mountain crystal and precious stones |  | snow |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chandelier=Patient |

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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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