The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 153
In anger round she glared:-- Once more that hiss long-drawn, and in her hand The goblet, shivered, stood!
Who acts: rock, that · What happens: glare, hiss, draw, shiver, stand · To what, where: anger, goblet, hand
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, that), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 anger | case |
| 2 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glared | obl |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 glared | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 glared | nsubj |
| 5 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 glared | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 hiss | punct |
| 8 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 hiss | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 hiss | nsubj |
| 11 | hiss | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 glared | conj |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drawn | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 14 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hiss | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stood | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | obl |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goblet | det |
| 21 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hand | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shivered | punct |
| 23 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 goblet | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hand | punct |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glared | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 glared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glare | past | rock | anger | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Location | ||||
| 2 | hiss | present | that | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | draw | participle | that not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shiver | participle | the goblet not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | stand | past | rock not said here | rock's hand | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location |
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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