The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 63
Such things beholding The queen was moved; and in her grew one day Craving for Cruachan.
Who acts: Such things, one day · What happens: behold, move, grow, crave · To what, where: queen
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such things, one day), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | beholding | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 things | acl |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moved | aux:pass |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 beholding | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 grew | mark |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grew | nmod:poss |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 day | nummod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | Craving | crave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 day | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Cruachan | case |
| 17 | Cruachan | Cruachan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Craving | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | gerund | Such things not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | move | past · passive | the queen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | Such things | day | queen nmod:poss | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | crave | gerund | one day not said here | for Cruachan | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for cruachan=Theme |
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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