🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 3

Him Fergus heard, and stood in anguish mute, His giant bulk bowed by his spirit’s pain That ever downward worked from scalp to foot: Like stag whom serpent folds begin to strain He stood--that strives in vain that coil to break-- And flame was on his face while thus he spake;

Who acts: elect, giant bulk, serpent folds, stag, coil, flame · What happens: hear, stand, anguish, bow, work, begin · To what, where: mute, giant bulk, scalp, stag, vain, face · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elect, giant bulk, serpent folds, stag), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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