The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 13
Beauteous as heaven that gladsome captive was; With every month more fair, more gladsome grew; Her pastime, counting jewels in the grass, Emerald and amethyst, and sapphire blue, Or chasing--never part had she in sloth-- From bloom to bloom the evening-gilded moth.
Who acts: gladsome captive, Beauteous, pastime, part, bloom · What happens: be, grow, count, chase, have, bloom · To what, where: pastime, jewels, grass, Deirdré, bloom, gilded moth
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 (gladsome captive, Beauteous, pastime, part), 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 | Beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 heaven | case |
| 3 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Beauteous | obl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 fair | mark |
| 5 | gladsome | gladsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 captive | amod |
| 6 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fair | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fair | cop |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 fair | punct |
| 9 | With | with | ADP | _ | 11 month | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 month | det |
| 11 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | obl |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 fair | advmod |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Beauteous | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gladsome | punct |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 gladsome | advmod |
| 16 | gladsome | gladsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Beauteous | conj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 pastime | punct |
| 19 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pastime | nmod:poss |
| 20 | pastime | pastime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 counting | punct |
| 22 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 pastime | acl |
| 23 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 counting | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 grass | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grass | det |
| 26 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 counting | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Emerald | punct |
| 28 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 grass | appos |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 amethyst | cc |
| 30 | amethyst | amethyst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grass | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 blue | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 blue | cc |
| 33 | sapphire | sapphire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 blue | amod |
| 34 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grew | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 chasing | punct |
| 36 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 chasing | cc |
| 37 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 blue | conj |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 had | punct |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 part | advmod |
| 40 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 grew | conj |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 had | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 sloth | case |
| 44 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obl |
| 45 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 47 bloom | punct |
| 46 | From | from | ADP | _ | 47 bloom | case |
| 47 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 bloom | case |
| 49 | bloom | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 bloom | acl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 moth | det |
| 51 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 gilded | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 evening | punct |
| 53 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 moth | amod |
| 54 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bloom | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gladsome captive | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Beauteous as heaven | Deirdré's pastime | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | count | gerund | Deirdré's pastime not said here | jewels | the grass and amethyst | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | |||
| 4 | chase | gerund | Beauteous as heaven not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have | past | part | Deirdré | bloom | in sloth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||
| 6 | bloom | infinitive | bloom not said here | the gilded moth | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location moth=Theme | ||||
| 7 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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