The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 190
With a brow Gloomy as night the queen replied; ‘’Tis false!
What happens: reply · 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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 brow | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 brow | det |
| 3 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Gloomy | obl |
| 4 | Gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Gloomy | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 night | conj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 queen | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 false | punct |
| 11 | ‘’ | ‘' | PUNCT | _ | 13 false | punct |
| 12 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 false | compound |
| 13 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Gloomy | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gloomy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the queen not said here | vn respond-113 «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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