The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 149
• p. 1: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “goodlier is this child / Than e’er till now on proudest parent smiled!”
Who acts: closing, proudest parent · What happens: add, close, be, smile · To what, where: • p., single quotation mark, child · 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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (closing, proudest parent), 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 | • | • | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 p. | compound |
| 2 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Added | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p. | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Added | punct |
| 5 | Added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | closing | close | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 child | csubj |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mark | amod |
| 8 | quotation | quotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mark | compound |
| 9 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closing | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 phrase | case |
| 11 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closing | obl |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 goodlier | punct |
| 13 | goodlier | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 phrase | amod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 child | cop |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Added | parataxis |
| 17 | / | / | SYM | _ | 19 e’er | cc |
| 18 | Than | Than | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 e’er | compound |
| 19 | e’er | e'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 child | conj |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 smiled | mark |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 smiled | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 parent | case |
| 23 | proudest | proud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 parent | amod |
| 24 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 smiled | nsubj |
| 25 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Added | advcl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Added | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: express | participle · passive | • p. | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | close | gerund | single quotation mark | after phrase | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | closing | this child / Than e’er | Than e’er conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | smile in a quote | past | proudest parent | now | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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