The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 35

‘For I remember once in yonder wood My nurse, to mock me, hid her in an oak, Whilst idly I a dragon-fly pursued: I missed her soon: I wept: then forth she broke!

Who acts: I, child · What happens: remember, mock, hide, pursue, miss, weep · To what, where: nurse, me, child, oak · 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 (I, child), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct
2	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 remember	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
4	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 remember	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	8 wood	advmod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl
9	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nurse	nmod:poss
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remember	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mock	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 mock	mark
13	mock	mock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 mock	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hid	punct
16	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mock	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hid	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 oak	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 oak	det
20	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pursued	punct
22	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	23 idly	mark
23	idly	idly	ADV	_	29 pursued	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 pursued	nsubj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fly	det
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fly	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 dragon	punct
28	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pursued	nsubj
29	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	ccomp
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 missed	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 missed	nsubj
32	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pursued	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 missed	obj
34	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 missed	advmod
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 wept	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 wept	nsubj
37	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 missed	conj
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 wept	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 forth	advmod
40	forth	forth	ADV	_	37 wept	advmod
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 broke	nsubj
42	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 wept	parataxis
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I	My nurse			once property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme clause=Attribute
2	mock	to-infinitive	I not said here	me				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	hide	past	I not said here	child	a oak			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in oak=Location
4	pursue	past	I				a dragon fly nsubj; idly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	miss	past	I	child			soon property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	weep	past	I			then	forth property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	break	past	child					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 35