The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 66
In tears awhile the faded fine one stood; And next, mechanic-wise oracular, Kept nodding of her head.
Who acts: faded fine one · What happens: fade, stand, keep · To what, where: tears, nodding
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 (faded fine one), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 tears | case |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stood | obl |
| 3 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 8 stood | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 5 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 one | amod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 oracular | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 oracular | cc |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 oracular | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 next | punct |
| 13 | mechanic | mechanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wise | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 mechanic | punct |
| 15 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 oracular | amod |
| 16 | oracular | oracular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Kept | punct |
| 18 | Kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 oracular | advcl |
| 19 | nodding | nodding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Kept | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nodding | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past | the faded fine one | tears | awhile property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tear=Location | |||
| 3 | keep | participle | the faded fine one not said here | nodding of maid's head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nodding=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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