The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 45

Not so old Levarcam! a spasm of dread Oft blanched her cheek remembering Conor’s word, ‘Keep safe the child, or forfeit is thy head!’

Who acts: old Levarcam, forfeit, Conor · What happens: blanch, remember, keep, be, word · To what, where: cheek, word, child, head

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 (old Levarcam, forfeit, Conor), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 Levarcam	advmod
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 old	advmod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Levarcam	amod
4	Levarcam	Levarcam	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 blanched	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Levarcam	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spasm	det
7	spasm	spasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blanched	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 dread	case
9	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spasm	nmod
10	Oft	Oft	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 spasm	appos
11	blanched	blanch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cheek	nmod:poss
13	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blanched	obj
14	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 blanched	advcl
15	Conor	Conor	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 word	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Conor	case
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remembering	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Keep	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Keep	punct
20	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 blanched	advcl
21	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Keep	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Keep	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 head	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 head	cc
26	forfeit	forfeit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 head	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 head	cop
28	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blanched	parataxis
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 head	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 head	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blanch	past	old Levarcam	spasm's cheek	a spasm of dread nsubj	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cheek=Patient
2	remember	gerund	old Levarcam not said here	Conor's word		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	keep	infinitive	old Levarcam not said here	the child	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	is a	present	forfeit	thy head	thy nmod:poss	tree rules
5	word		Conor			nom word «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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 45

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 45