The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 11
A lily’s gleam Shines thus, reflected in the lake below, More softly, green for green, and snow for snow.
What happens: reflect · To what, where: gleam Shines, lake
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lily | det |
| 2 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gleam | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 lily | case |
| 4 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Shines | compound |
| 5 | Shines | shine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 reflected | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reflected | punct |
| 8 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reflected | obl |
| 12 | below | below | ADV | _ | 11 lake | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 green | punct |
| 14 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 softly | advmod |
| 15 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 17 green | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 green | punct |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reflected | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 green | case |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 green | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 snow | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 snow | cc |
| 22 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reflected | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 snow | case |
| 24 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 snow | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | participle · passive | gleam Shines | the lake | snow for snow obl; thus property | tree rules |
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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