The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 34

More closely drew the orphans, each to each:-- ’Twas then Finola raised her dirge on high, As nearer yet they drifted to the beach In hope one fragment of past days to spy; ‘Upon our father’s house hath fallen a change; And as a dead man’s face this place is strange!

Who acts: Finola, orphans, place · What happens: draw, raise, drift, spy, have, fall · To what, where: orphans, Twas, high, hope, change

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 (Finola, orphans, place), 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	More	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 drew	advmod
2	closely	closely	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 orphans	det
5	orphans	orphan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drew	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 each	punct
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 orphans	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 each	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 each	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 Twas	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 Twas	punct
13	Twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 raised	obl
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 raised	advmod
15	Finola	Finola	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 raised	nsubj
16	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dirge	nmod:poss
18	dirge	dirge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 raised	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 high	case
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 raised	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 nearer	punct
22	As	as	ADP	_	23 nearer	case
23	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 raised	parataxis
24	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	26 drifted	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drifted	nsubj
26	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 raised	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 beach	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 beach	det
29	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drifted	obl
30	In	in	ADP	_	31 hope	case
31	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drifted	obl
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 fragment	nummod
33	fragment	fragment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hope	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 days	case
35	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 days	amod
36	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fragment	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 spy	mark
38	spy	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 fragment	acl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 hath	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	46 hath	punct
41	Upon	upon	ADP	_	45 house	case
42	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 father	nmod:poss
43	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 house	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 father	case
45	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hath	obl
46	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 raised	parataxis
47	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 hath	ccomp
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 change	det
49	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fallen	obj
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 strange	punct
51	And	and	CCONJ	_	61 strange	cc
52	as	as	ADP	_	57 face	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 man	det
54	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 man	amod
55	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 face	nmod:poss
56	’s	's	PART	_	55 man	case
57	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 strange	obl
58	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 place	det
59	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 strange	nsubj
60	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 strange	cop
61	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drew	conj
62	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past		the orphans			closely property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orphan=Theme
2	raise	past	Finola	Twas	high	then	Finola's dirge obj	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dirge=Theme on high=Destination
3	drift	past	orphans = orphan		hope and one fragment of past days		to the beach	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to beach=Source in hope=Trajectory
4	spy	to-infinitive	orphans = orphan not said here					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	present					upon our father's house	tree rules
6	fall	participle		a change				vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient change=Result
7	is	present	this place				as a dead man's face; strange property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/34/

🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 34