The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 81
Therein a little maiden-wonder lay Unlike all babes besides in mien and hue, Bright as a lily-bud at break of day That flashes through the night’s unlifted dew: Beaming her eyes; like planets glad and fair: And o’er her forehead curved a fringe of hair.
Who acts: little maiden wonder, day, forehead · What happens: lay, flash, unlift, beam, curve, break · To what, where: day, unlifted dew, eyes, fringe
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little maiden wonder, day, forehead), 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 | Therein | therein | ADV | _ | 7 lay | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wonder | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wonder | amod |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wonder | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
| 6 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 10 babes | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 babes | det |
| 10 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lay | obl |
| 11 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 13 mien | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mien | case |
| 13 | mien | mien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hue | cc |
| 15 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mien | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Bright | punct |
| 17 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mien | appos |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 bud | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bud | det |
| 20 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bud | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 lily | punct |
| 22 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Bright | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 break | case |
| 24 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bud | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 break | nmod |
| 27 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 flashes | nsubj |
| 28 | flashes | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 day | acl:relcl |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 dew | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 night | det |
| 31 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dew | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 night | case |
| 33 | unlifted | unlift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 dew | amod |
| 34 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 flashes | obl |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 Beaming | punct |
| 36 | Beaming | beam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lay | advcl |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Beaming | obj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 glad | punct |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 planets | case |
| 41 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 glad | obl |
| 42 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lay | parataxis |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 fair | cc |
| 44 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 glad | conj |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 50 curved | punct |
| 46 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 curved | cc |
| 47 | o’er | o'er | SCONJ | _ | 50 curved | mark |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 49 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 curved | nsubj |
| 50 | curved | curve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 glad | conj |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 fringe | det |
| 52 | fringe | fringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 curved | obj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 hair | case |
| 54 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 fringe | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | infinitive | a little maiden wonder | unlike all babes; besides mien and hue; therein property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flash | present | day | day not said here | the night's unlifted dew | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent day=Theme | |||
| 3 | unlift | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | beam | gerund | a little maiden wonder not said here | wonder's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 5 | curve | past | wonder's forehead | a fringe of hair | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent fringe=Material | ||||
| 6 | break | day | nom break «event transitive»: of=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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