The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 59

Next told she how for Tara’s King they found No consort worthy of the royal bed From east to west through Erin’s utmost bound; And how, dream-warned, the youth had northward sped: And how, from fountain-bower by Fairy Brugh, A white maid looked on him with eyes of blue.

Who acts: earth, fountain bower · What happens: tell, find, warn, speed, look · To what, where: Nor, consort worthy, youth · 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 (earth, fountain bower), 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	Next	next	ADV	_	2 told	advmod
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 found	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 King	case
6	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Tara	case
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	advcl
11	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 worthy	det
12	consort	consort	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 worthy	compound
13	worthy	worthy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 bed	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bed	det
16	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bed	amod
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 worthy	nmod
18	From	from	ADP	_	19 east	case
19	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bed	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	26 bound	case
21	west	west	ADV	_	26 bound	advmod
22	through	through	ADP	_	26 bound	case
23	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 bound	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Erin	case
25	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bound	amod
26	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 warned	punct
28	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 warned	cc
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 warned	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 warned	punct
31	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 warned	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 dream	punct
33	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sped	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 youth	det
36	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sped	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sped	aux
38	northward	northward	ADV	_	39 sped	advmod
39	sped	speed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 warned	conj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 how	punct
41	And	and	CCONJ	_	42 how	cc
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 told	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 bower	punct
44	from	from	ADP	_	47 bower	case
45	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bower	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 fountain	punct
47	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 looked	nsubj
48	by	by	ADP	_	50 Brugh	case
49	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Brugh	amod
50	Brugh	Brugh	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 bower	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 maid	punct
52	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 maid	det
53	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 maid	amod
54	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 looked	nsubj
55	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
56	on	on	ADP	_	57 him	case
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 looked	obl
58	with	with	ADP	_	59 eyes	case
59	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 looked	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 blue	case
61	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 eyes	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			Nor	next property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	find	past	earth	no consort worthy of the royal bed from east		for Tara's King; to Erin's utmost bound	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent worthy=Theme for king=Beneficiary
3	warn speech: warn	participle				dream compound	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	speed	past · perfect · passive		the youth		northward property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent
5	look	past	fountain bower by Fairy Brugh			on maid; with eyes of blue; a white maid nsubj	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 59