The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 62

While thus the tales ran on, the years ran by, Tales, some of sadness, some of mirth and jest, Till now the child to maiden prime was nigh: The tales of war and wonder pleased her best: The love-tales well began, no doubt: yet all Ended, she thought, in something slight and small.

Who acts: tales, years, child, love tales, war · What happens: run on, run, be, begin, think, tell · To what, where: doubt, something · 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 (tales, years, child, love tales), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 ran	mark
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tales	det
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ran	advcl
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 years	det
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 Tales	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Tales	punct
13	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ran	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 some	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 Tales	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 sadness	case
17	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 some	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 some	punct
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 Tales	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 mirth	case
21	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 some	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 jest	cc
23	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mirth	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nigh	punct
25	Till	till	SCONJ	_	33 nigh	mark
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 nigh	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 child	det
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nigh	nsubj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 prime	case
30	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 prime	amod
31	prime	prime	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 child	nmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 nigh	cop
33	nigh	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ran	parataxis
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 tales	punct
35	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tales	det
36	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 nigh	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 war	case
38	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tales	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 wonder	cc
40	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tales	conj
41	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 best	amod
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 best	nmod:poss
43	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 tales	nmod
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	50 began	punct
45	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 tales	det
46	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 tales	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 love	punct
48	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 began	nsubj
49	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 began	advmod
50	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ran	parataxis
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 doubt	punct
52	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	53 doubt	det
53	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 began	obj
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 doubt	punct
55	yet	yet	ADV	_	56 all	advmod
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 began	obl
57	Ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 all	amod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 thought	punct
59	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 thought	nsubj
60	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 began	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 something	punct
62	in	in	ADP	_	63 something	case
63	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	60 thought	obj
64	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 something	amod
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 small	cc
66	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 slight	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run on	past	the tales			thus property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	the years			by Tales	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tale=Trajectory
3	is	past	the child to maiden prime		now	the tales of war child's pleased best and wonder conj; nigh property	tree rules
4	begin	past	the love tales	no doubt		all obl; well property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	past	child	something			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
6	tell		war				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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 62