The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 54
Their chess-board next they ranged with pawn and queen; And Deirdré laughed or frowned the moves between.
Who acts: chess board, Deirdré · What happens: range, laugh, frown
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 (chess board, Deirdré), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 board | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 board | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 chess | punct |
| 4 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ranged | nsubj |
| 5 | next | next | ADP | _ | 7 ranged | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ranged | nsubj |
| 7 | ranged | range | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pawn | case |
| 9 | pawn | pawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ranged | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 queen | cc |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pawn | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 laughed | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laughed | cc |
| 14 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 laughed | nsubj |
| 15 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ranged | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 frowned | cc |
| 17 | frowned | frown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laughed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moves | det |
| 19 | moves | move | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 between | nsubj |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 frowned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | range | past | warriors's chess board | with pawn and queen; warriors = warrior nsubj | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | Deirdré | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | frown | past | Deirdré not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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