The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 97
With a smile That deepened, Fergus questioned once again: ‘Make large thine eyes and tell me what thou seest!’
Who acts: That, Fergus, thou · What happens: deepen, question, make, tell, see · To what, where: large eyes, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, Fergus, thou), 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 smile | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smile | det |
| 3 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deepened | obl |
| 4 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 deepened | nsubj |
| 5 | deepened | deepen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 questioned | punct |
| 7 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 questioned | nsubj |
| 8 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deepened | conj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 questioned | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 questioned | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Make | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Make | punct |
| 13 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 deepened | parataxis |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 15 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Make | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tell | cc |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 Make | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 seest | obj |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 seest | nsubj |
| 22 | seest | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Make | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deepen | past | That | with a smile | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with smile=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | Fergus | again | once property | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | make | infinitive | thine large eyes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | see | present | thou | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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