The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 10
Meantime to that green island in the lake The years came softly: softly went they by As like as snowy flake to snowy flake, As like as smile to smile, as sigh to sigh; And as some flower that feeds on beams and dew Its inmate rose in beauty ever new,
Who acts: Meantime, horse, sigh, flower · What happens: come, go, smile, sigh, feed, dew · To what, where: smile, snowy flake, sigh, inmate, beauty
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime, horse, sigh, flower), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 island | det |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 island | amod |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meantime | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 island | nmod |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 years | det |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 As | case |
| 18 | As | as | ADV | _ | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 flake | case |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 flake | case |
| 21 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flake | amod |
| 22 | flake | flake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 flake | case |
| 24 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 flake | amod |
| 25 | flake | flake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 smile | punct |
| 27 | As | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 30 smile | cc |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 As | fixed |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 As | fixed |
| 30 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 smile | mark |
| 32 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 smile | acl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sigh | punct |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 sigh | case |
| 35 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 smile | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 sigh | case |
| 37 | sigh | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 sigh | acl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 rose | punct |
| 39 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 rose | cc |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 flower | case |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 flower | det |
| 42 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 rose | obl |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 feeds | nsubj |
| 44 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 flower | acl:relcl |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 beams | case |
| 46 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 feeds | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 dew | cc |
| 48 | dew | dew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 feeds | conj |
| 49 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 inmate | nmod:poss |
| 50 | inmate | inmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 dew | obj |
| 51 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 beauty | case |
| 53 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 rose | obl |
| 54 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 55 new | advmod |
| 55 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 beauty | amod |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Meantime to that green island in the lake | softly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | horse | smile | snowy flake | like snowy flake; softly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to flake=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | smile | to-infinitive | horse not said here | sigh | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sigh | infinitive | sigh not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | feed | present | some flower | on beams | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on beam=Patient | ||||
| 6 | dew | infinitive | some flower not said here | Meantime's inmate | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | rise | past | Meantime to that green island in the lake not said here | beauty | as some flower | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in beauty=Location |
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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