The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 105
She watched the fight No pallor on her fruit-like cheek, no cloud Dimming her star-like eyes.
Who acts: Vanity, cloud · What happens: watch, dim · To what, where: fight, like cheek, like eyes
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vanity, cloud), 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 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fight | det |
| 4 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obj |
| 5 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 pallor | det |
| 6 | pallor | pallor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 cheek | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 like | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fruit | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cheek | amod |
| 12 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cloud | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 cloud | det |
| 15 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cheek | appos |
| 16 | Dimming | dim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 cloud | acl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 like | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 star | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Dimming | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Vanity | the fight | Vanity's like cheek | no pallor obj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent fight=Theme pallor=Attribute | ||
| 2 | dim | gerund | no cloud not said here | Vanity's like eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=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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