The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 62
She took it from her breast, and held it near: He smelt it; kissed it; kept it.
Who acts: bride, soothsayer · What happens: take, hold, smelt, kiss, keep · To what, where: sleep, breast
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 (bride, soothsayer), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 breast | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 breast | nmod:poss |
| 6 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 held | cc |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 held | obj |
| 11 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 held | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 smelt | punct |
| 13 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smelt | nsubj |
| 14 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smelt | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 kissed | punct |
| 17 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 smelt | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kissed | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 smelt | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kept | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | bride | sleep | bride's breast | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from breast=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hold | past | bride not said here | sleep | near property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | smelt | past | soothsayer | sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | soothsayer not said here | sleep | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | soothsayer not said here | sleep | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/62/