The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 64

One day it chanced that, while the March wind’s breath Was softening round the daffodil’s first bud, Their shepherd old had saved a lamb from death, And slain the wolf, and in their gateway stood; And, as the wounded creature bled, below A crimson blood-pool stained the last night’s snow.

Who acts: upward, breath, wounded creature, last night · What happens: chance, soften, save, slain, stand, bleed · To what, where: shepherd, wolf, gateway, snow, crimson blood pool

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 (upward, breath, wounded creature, last night), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chanced	obl:unmarked
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chanced	nsubj
4	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 chanced	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 softening	punct
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 softening	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
9	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wind	nmod:unmarked
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 breath	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 wind	case
12	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 softening	nsubj
13	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 softening	aux
14	softening	soften	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 chanced	conj
15	round	round	ADP	_	20 bud	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 daffodil	det
17	daffodil	daffodil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bud	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 daffodil	case
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 bud	amod
20	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 softening	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shepherd	punct
22	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shepherd	nmod:poss
23	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saved	nsubj:pass
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shepherd	amod
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saved	aux
26	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 softening	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lamb	det
28	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saved	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 death	case
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lamb	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 slain	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 slain	cc
33	slain	slain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chanced	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wolf	det
35	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 slain	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stood	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 stood	cc
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 gateway	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 gateway	nmod:poss
40	gateway	gateway	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stood	obl
41	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 slain	advcl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 bled	punct
43	And	and	CCONJ	_	49 bled	cc
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 And	punct
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 bled	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 creature	det
47	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 creature	amod
48	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bled	nsubj
49	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chanced	parataxis
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 stained	punct
51	below	below	ADP	_	56 pool	case
52	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 pool	det
53	crimson	crimson	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 pool	amod
54	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 pool	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 blood	punct
56	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 stained	obl
57	stained	stain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 bled	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 night	det
59	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 night	amod
60	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 snow	nmod:poss
61	’s	's	PART	_	60 night	case
62	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 stained	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chance	past	upward			day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	soften	past · progressive	the wind March's breath				round the daffodil's first bud	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	save	past · perfect · passive		things's shepherd			a lamb obj	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary lamb=Theme
4	slain	infinitive	upward not said here	the wolf				tree rules
5	stand	past	upward not said here		things's gateway			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gateway=Location
6	bleed	past	the wounded creature					vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
7	stain	past	the wounded creature not said here	the last night's snow	a crimson blood pool			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent snow=Destination
8	snow		the last night					nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: 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 64