The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 33

There where the towers of Lir of old had stood Lay now the stony heap and rain-washed rath; And through the ruin-mantling alder-wood The forest beast had stamped in mire his path; And desolate were their mother’s happy bowers, So fair of old with fountains and with flowers!

Who acts: towers, mantling alder wood · What happens: stand, wash, mantle, stamp, desolate, be · To what, where: Lay, mantling alder wood, forest beast, mire, mother happy bowers

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 (towers, mantling alder wood), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 stood	expl
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 stood	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 towers	det
4	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stood	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Lir	case
6	Lir	Lir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 towers	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 old	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stood	obl
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stood	aux
10	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	Lay	Lay	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stood	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heap	det
14	stony	stony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heap	amod
15	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rath	cc
17	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 washed	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 rain	punct
19	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 rath	amod
20	rath	rath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heap	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 wood	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 wood	cc
23	through	through	ADP	_	30 wood	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wood	det
25	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mantling	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 ruin	punct
27	mantling	mantle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 wood	amod
28	alder	alder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wood	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 alder	punct
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
31	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beast	det
32	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 beast	compound
33	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stamped	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 stamped	aux
35	stamped	stamp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 wood	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 mire	case
37	mire	mire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stamped	obl
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 path	nmod:poss
39	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stamped	obj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 desolate	punct
41	And	and	CCONJ	_	42 desolate	cc
42	desolate	desolate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 stood	parataxis
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 mother	cop
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 mother	nmod:poss
45	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bowers	compound
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 mother	case
47	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 bowers	amod
48	bowers	bower	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 desolate	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 fair	punct
50	So	so	ADV	_	51 fair	advmod
51	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stood	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 old	case
53	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 fair	obl
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 fountains	case
55	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 old	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 flowers	cc
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 flowers	case
58	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 fountains	conj
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect	the towers of Lir	Lay	the mantling alder wood; there	now	of old; the stony heap and washed rath obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lay=Theme through wood=Destination
2	wash	participle					rain compound	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mantle	gerund					ruin compound	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	stamp	past · perfect · passive	the mantling alder wood not said here	the forest beast	mire		Lay's path obj	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme path=Result
5	desolate	infinitive		mother happy bowers				tree rules
6	is	past					's wood's mother; wood nmod:poss	tree rules

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 33