The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 61

Between them stretched from pillow on to pillow The massive trail of Deirdré’s luminous hair, Like gold-touched tendrils of a budded willow Breeze-blown against the dawn.

What happens: stretch, touch, bud, blow · To what, where: ’d, pillow, budded willow

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	Between	between	ADP	_	3 stretched	mark
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stretched	nsubj:pass
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 pillow	case
5	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 pillow	case
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pillow	mark
8	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trail	det
10	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trail	amod
11	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 hair	case
13	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hair	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Deirdré	case
15	luminous	luminous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hair	amod
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trail	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tendrils	punct
18	Like	like	ADP	_	22 tendrils	case
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 touched	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 gold	punct
21	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 tendrils	amod
22	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stretched	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 willow	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 willow	det
25	budded	bud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 willow	amod
26	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tendrils	nmod
27	Breeze	Breeze	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 willow	appos
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Breeze	punct
29	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 willow	acl
30	against	against	ADP	_	32 dawn	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dawn	det
32	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blown	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	participle · passive	’d = 'd	pillow		on pillow; like touched tendrils of a budded willow; the massive trail of Deirdré's luminous hair obj	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient trail=Result
2	touch	participle				gold compound	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bud	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	blow	participle	a budded willow not said here		dawn		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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 4, sentence 61

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 61