The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 19

Two men alone she saw; at times the king: His grizzled beard and searching eye she fled, And wept to think that in some far-off spring She must be his.

Who acts: Two men, flower · What happens: see, grizzle, search, flee, weep, think · To what, where: eye, king

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 (Two men, 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 men	nummod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	nsubj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 men	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 times	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 times	case
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	obl:unmarked
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod:unmarked
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 beard	punct
12	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 beard	nmod:poss
13	grizzled	grizzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 beard	amod
14	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 searching	cc
16	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 beard	conj
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 searching	obj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fled	nsubj
19	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eye	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wept	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 wept	cc
22	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 think	mark
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wept	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 spring	mark
26	in	in	ADP	_	31 spring	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 spring	nsubj
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 spring	advmod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 far	punct
30	off	off	ADP	_	31 spring	case
31	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 think	ccomp
32	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 his	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 his	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 his	cop
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 spring	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Two men		time	flower nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	grizzle	participle					tree rules
3	search	gerund	Two men not said here	eye			vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Location
4	flee	past	flower	eye not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Initial_Location
5	weep	past	Two men not said here				tree rules
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Two men not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	must	flower	king			tree rules

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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 19