The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 44
She spake! around her lip a smile there curled; Her kindling eye was fixed as eye of one Who sees, beyond the limits of the world, Beyond the thresholds of our moon and sun, Beyond the abysmal night, a gleam of day, And can abide the issue come what may.
Who acts: pit, smile, issue · What happens: speak, curl, fix, see, abide, come · To what, where: lip, kindling eye · 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 (pit, smile, issue), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spake | nsubj |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 lip | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lip | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 smile | det |
| 8 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 curled | nsubj |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 smile | advmod |
| 10 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lip | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fixed | punct |
| 12 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eye | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kindling | kindling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eye | compound |
| 14 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fixed | aux:pass |
| 16 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 spake | advcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 eye | case |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fixed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 eye | appos |
| 21 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sees | nsubj |
| 22 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 limits | punct |
| 24 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 26 limits | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 limits | det |
| 26 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fixed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 limits | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thresholds | punct |
| 31 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 33 thresholds | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 thresholds | det |
| 33 | thresholds | threshold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fixed | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 moon | case |
| 35 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 moon | nmod:poss |
| 36 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 thresholds | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sun | cc |
| 38 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 moon | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 night | punct |
| 40 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 43 night | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 night | det |
| 42 | abysmal | abysmal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 night | amod |
| 43 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fixed | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 gleam | punct |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 gleam | det |
| 46 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 night | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 day | case |
| 48 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 gleam | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 abide | punct |
| 50 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 abide | cc |
| 51 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 abide | aux |
| 52 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spake | conj |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 issue | det |
| 54 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 come | nsubj |
| 55 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 abide | ccomp |
| 56 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 55 come | obl |
| 57 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 what | aux |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | infinitive | pit | pit's lip | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | curl | participle | a smile | pit's lip not said here | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fix | past · passive | pit's kindling eye | night | as eye; beyond the limits of the world; beyond the thresholds of our moon and sun | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | see | present | Who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | abide | can | pit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | present | the issue | what obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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