The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 26

And thrice they dreamed that in the morning gray They gathered there red roses drenched with dew: But lo! a serpent ’neath the roses lay: Then came the Tailkenn, and that serpent slew; And round the Tailkenn’s tonsured head was light That made that morning more than noonday bright.

Who acts: thrice, sports, roses, tonsured head, That · What happens: dream, gather, drench, lay, come, roun · To what, where: serpent, red roses, morning gray, Tailkenn, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, 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 (thrice, sports, roses, tonsured head), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 dreamed	cc
2	thrice	thrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dreamed	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dreamed	nsubj
4	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 gathered	mark
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 gray	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gray	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gray	compound
9	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gathered	obl
10	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gathered	nsubj
11	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dreamed	ccomp
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 gathered	advmod
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 roses	amod
14	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gathered	obj
15	drenched	drench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 roses	acl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 dew	case
17	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drenched	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 serpent	punct
19	But	but	CCONJ	_	23 serpent	cc
20	lo	lo	INTJ	_	23 serpent	discourse
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 lo	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 serpent	det
23	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dreamed	obl
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 serpent	punct
25	neath	neath	SCONJ	_	28 lay	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 roses	det
27	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dreamed	advcl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
30	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 came	advmod
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lay	ccomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Tailkenn	det
33	Tailkenn	Tailkenn	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 came	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 slew	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 slew	cc
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 slew	det
37	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 slew	compound
38	slew	slew	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 round	punct
40	And	and	CCONJ	_	41 round	cc
41	round	roun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dreamed	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Tailkenn	det
43	Tailkenn	Tailkenn	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 head	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 Tailkenn	case
45	tonsured	tonsure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 head	amod
46	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 light	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 light	cop
48	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 round	ccomp
49	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 made	nsubj
50	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 light	ccomp
51	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 morning	det
52	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 made	obl:unmarked
53	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	50 made	obj
54	than	than	ADP	_	56 bright	case
55	noonday	noonday	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 bright	compound
56	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 more	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past	thrice	a serpent			sports = sport nsubj	vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gather	past	sports = sport	red roses	the morning gray; there			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme
3	drench	participle		red roses not said here			with dew	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dew=Theme
4	lay	present	the roses					tree rules
5	come	past	the roses not said here	the Tailkenn		then	that serpent slew obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tailkenn=Theme
6	roun	past	thrice not said here					tree rules
7	tonsure	participle						tree rules
8	is	past	the Tailkenn's tonsured head				light property	tree rules
9	make	past	That	more		morning		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product

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: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 26