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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 95

Then she; ‘I note Girdling their slopes a mist feathery and soft, As though of snow-flakes wov’n: above it peaks Shoot up, like isles cloud-hid.

Who acts: Fergus, mist, cloud · What happens: note, girdle, peak, shoot up, hide · To what, where: slopes

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 (Fergus, mist, 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

advmodnsubjpunctpunctnsubjxcompnmod:possobjdetobjamodccconjpunctcasemarkcasecompoundpunctcompoundconjpunctcasensubjparataxisconjcompound:prtpunctcaseoblnsubjpunctconjpunctrootThenADVshePRON;PUNCT‘PUNCTIPRONnoteVERBGirdlingVERBtheirPRONslopesNOUNaDETmistNOUNfeatheryADJandCCONJsoftADJ,PUNCTAsADPthoughSCONJofADPsnowNOUN-PUNCTflakesNOUNwov’nNOUN:PUNCTaboveADPitPRONpeaksVERBShootVERBupADP,PUNCTlikeADPislesNOUNcloudNOUN-PUNCThidVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem6 noteadvmod
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 notensubj
3;;PUNCT_6 notepunct
4‘'PUNCT_6 notepunct
5IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs6 notensubj
6notenoteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7GirdlinggirdleVERBVerbForm=Ger6 notexcomp
8theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 slopesnmod:poss
9slopesslopeNOUNNumber=Plur7 Girdlingobj
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 mistdet
11mistmistNOUNNumber=Sing7 Girdlingobj
12featheryfeatheryADJDegree=Pos11 mistamod
13andandCCONJ_14 softcc
14softsoftADJDegree=Pos12 featheryconj
15,,PUNCT_22 wov’npunct
16AsasADP_22 wov’ncase
17thoughthoughSCONJ_22 wov’nmark
18ofofADP_21 flakescase
19snowsnowNOUNNumber=Sing21 flakescompound
20--PUNCT_19 snowpunct
21flakesflakeNOUNNumber=Plur22 wov’ncompound
22wov’nwov'nNOUNNumber=Sing12 featheryconj
23::PUNCT_26 peakspunct
24aboveaboveADP_26 peakscase
25ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 peaksnsubj
26peakspeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 noteparataxis
27ShootshootVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin26 peaksconj
28upupADP_27 Shootcompound:prt
29,,PUNCT_34 hidpunct
30likelikeADP_31 islescase
31islesisleNOUNNumber=Plur34 hidobl
32cloudcloudNOUNNumber=Sing34 hidnsubj
33--PUNCT_32 cloudpunct
34hidhideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 peaksconj
35..PUNCT_6 notepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1notepresentFergusthenI nsubjvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2girdlegerundFergus not said hereeyes's slopesa mist objtree rules
3peakpresentmisttree rules
4shoot uppresentmist not said herevn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5hidepastcloudlike islesvn concealment-16-1 «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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