The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 227
On that airy height A wan lake glittered, whitening in the blast, Pale plains around it.
Who acts: wan lake · What happens: glitter, whiten · To what, where: airy height, blast
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 (wan lake), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 height | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 height | det |
| 3 | airy | airy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 height | amod |
| 4 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glittered | obl |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 6 | wan | wan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lake | amod |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glittered | nsubj |
| 8 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whitening | punct |
| 10 | whitening | whiten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 glittered | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 blast | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 blast | det |
| 13 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whitening | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plains | punct |
| 15 | Pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 plains | amod |
| 16 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 blast | conj |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 plains | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 glittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | participle | a wan lake | that airy height | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on height=Location | ||||
| 2 | whiten | gerund | a wan lake not said here | the blast and Pale plains around lake | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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