The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 29
Her great wide eyes, clasped hands, and lips compressed, Better than words enforced the unending quest.
Who acts: great wide eyes, words · What happens: clasp, compress, enforce · To what, where: hands, lips, unending quest
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 (great wide eyes, words), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 3 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clasped | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eyes | punct |
| 6 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clasped | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lips | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lips | cc |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clasped | obl |
| 11 | compressed | compress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lips | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Better | punct |
| 13 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 clasped | conj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Better | obl |
| 16 | enforced | enforce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 words | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 quest | det |
| 18 | unending | unending | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 quest | amod |
| 19 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enforced | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | Ogham's great wide eyes | hands | lips obl | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | compress | participle | lips not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | enforce | participle | words not said here | the unending quest | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Theme |
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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