The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 106
What else the snow-flakes which thou saw’st but foam Dashed from the horses’ bits?
Who acts: snow flakes · What happens: saw'st, dash · To what, where: saw’st, bits
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow flakes), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | else | else | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flakes | det |
| 4 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flakes | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 snow | punct |
| 6 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 saw’st | nsubj |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 saw’st | nsubj |
| 9 | saw’st | saw'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flakes | nmod |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 foam | cc |
| 11 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw’st | conj |
| 12 | Dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saw’st | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 bits | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horses | det |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bits | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 15 horses | case |
| 17 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Dashed | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | saw'st | the snow flakes | thou nsubj; foam conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dash | participle | saw’st but foam not said here | the horses's bits | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bit=Trajectory |
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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