The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 23
The other visitor she better loved, A Druid, silver-headed: to her isle Daily he came, a teacher well-approved; And much he taught her, with his grave calm smile Advancing still into his pupil’s heart: To elicit thence, he knew, was to impart.
Who acts: Officious, Druid, other visitor, grave calm smile · What happens: love, head, come, approve, teach, advance · To what, where: other visitor, Druid, isle, teacher, Officious, heart · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Officious, Druid, other visitor, grave calm smile), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 visitor | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 visitor | amod |
| 3 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 taught | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 loved | nsubj |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 loved | advmod |
| 6 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 visitor | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Druid | punct |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Druid | det |
| 9 | Druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visitor | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 headed | punct |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 headed | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 silver | punct |
| 13 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Druid | acl:relcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 isle | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 isle | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 isle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visitor | conj |
| 18 | Daily | daily | ADV | _ | 17 isle | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 isle | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 teacher | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 teacher | det |
| 23 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 isle | conj |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 approved | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 well | punct |
| 26 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 taught | punct |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 taught | cc |
| 29 | much | much | ADV | _ | 31 taught | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 taught | nsubj |
| 31 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 taught | iobj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 smile | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 smile | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 smile | nmod:poss |
| 36 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 smile | amod |
| 37 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 smile | amod |
| 38 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 taught | conj |
| 39 | Advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 smile | acl |
| 40 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 Advancing | advmod |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 heart | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 pupil | nmod:poss |
| 43 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 heart | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 pupil | case |
| 45 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Advancing | obl |
| 46 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 48 elicit | punct |
| 47 | To | to | PART | _ | 48 elicit | mark |
| 48 | elicit | elicit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 smile | parataxis |
| 49 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 48 elicit | advmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 knew | punct |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 knew | nsubj |
| 52 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 elicit | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 impart | punct |
| 54 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 impart | cop |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 impart | mark |
| 56 | impart | impart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 knew | ccomp |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Officious | the other visitor and a Druid and Officious's isle and a teacher not said here | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visitor=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | head | participle | a Druid not said here | silver compound | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Druid | Officious's isle and a teacher not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location isle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | approve | participle | a teacher not said here | well property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | past | the other visitor and a Druid and Officious's isle and a teacher | Officious | Druid nsubj; Druid's grave calm smile conj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 6 | advance | gerund | Druid's grave calm smile not said here | Druid's pupil's heart | still | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | elicit | to-infinitive | thence property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 8 | know | past | Druid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | is | past | impart property | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | smile | Druid | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=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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