The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 21
An instant back she flashed her magic eyes And from her laughing lip the answer leaped, ‘Where stags are none, the doe must monarchise!’
Who acts: instant back, stags, doe · What happens: flash, laugh, leap, be, monarchise · To what, where: magic eyes, answer, laughing lip, none
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: who acts (instant back, stags, doe), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 back | det |
| 2 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 back | amod |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flashed | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flashed | nsubj |
| 5 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | amod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flashed | obj |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leaped | cc |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 lip | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lip | nmod:poss |
| 12 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 lip | amod |
| 13 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaped | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 answer | det |
| 15 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaped | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 flashed | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Where | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Where | punct |
| 19 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 flashed | conj |
| 20 | stags | stag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 none | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 none | cop |
| 22 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 19 Where | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 monarchise | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 doe | det |
| 25 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 monarchise | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 monarchise | aux |
| 27 | monarchise | monarchise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 none | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 none | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past | a instant back | back's magic eyes | back nsubj | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | leap | participle · passive | the answer | back's laughing lip | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | stags | none | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | monarchise | must | the doe | 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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