The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 63
The Ill Spirits heard their knell, And shrieking fled to penal dungeons drear; And straight, since now those blissful Four drew near,
Who acts: Ill Spirits, shrieking, blissful Four, Spirits · What happens: hear, flee, draw, knell · To what, where: knell, dungeons drear
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 (Ill Spirits, shrieking, blissful Four, Spirits), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Spirits | det |
| 2 | Ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Spirits | amod |
| 3 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knell | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knell | knell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fled | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fled | cc |
| 9 | shrieking | shrieking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fled | nsubj |
| 10 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 drear | case |
| 12 | penal | penal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dungeons | amod |
| 13 | dungeons | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 drear | compound |
| 14 | drear | drear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fled | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 drew | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drew | cc |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 23 Four | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 straight | punct |
| 19 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 23 Four | mark |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 Four | advmod |
| 21 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 Four | det |
| 22 | blissful | blissful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Four | amod |
| 23 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 drew | nsubj |
| 24 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 25 | near | near | ADV | _ | 24 drew | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Ill Spirits | Spirits's knell | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knell=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | shrieking | dungeons drear | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to drear=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | that blissful Four | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | knell | Spirits = spirit | nom knell «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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