The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 77
Upon her casque And spear beyond it pointing glared the moon, And on a face like hers that froze of old The gazers into stone.
Who acts: spear, that · What happens: point, glare, freeze · To what, where: moon, face
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 (spear, that), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 casque | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 casque | nmod:poss |
| 3 | casque | casque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glared | obl |
| 4 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spear | cc |
| 5 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 casque | conj |
| 6 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 8 pointing | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pointing | nsubj |
| 8 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 glared | advcl |
| 9 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moon | det |
| 11 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glared | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 froze | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 froze | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 face | det |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 froze | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 hers | case |
| 18 | hers | her | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 face | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 froze | nsubj |
| 20 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glared | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gazers | case |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gazers | amod |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gazers | det |
| 24 | gazers | gazer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 froze | obl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 stone | case |
| 26 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 froze | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 glared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | gerund | spear | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | glare | past | the moon | upon goddess's casque and spear | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | freeze | past | that | a face like hers | of the old gazers; into stone | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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