The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 34
In her ear Her mother whispered as she neared that seat: She answered with her eyes.
Who acts: mother · What happens: whisper, near, answer · To what, where: ear, seat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | _ | 3 ear | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ear | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whispered | obl |
| 4 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whispered | nsubj |
| 6 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 neared | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 neared | nsubj |
| 9 | neared | near | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whispered | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 seat | det |
| 11 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 neared | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 13 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whispered | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 answered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | o’er's mother | o’er's ear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | near | past | mother | that seat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | mother | with mother's eyes | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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