The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 71

Last, like that bird which fan-like spreads her plumes For pride, to Conor’s palace she returned, And found him seated in presageful glooms; And cried as though some reptile shape she spurned, ‘Woe, woe; for Deirdré’s brightness is gone by;-- Brown moth is she that once was butterfly!’

Who acts: Conor, speed · What happens: spread, return, find, seat, cry, spurn · To what, where: plumes, palace, speed, presageful glooms, Woe, reptile shape

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 (Conor, speed), 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	Last	last	ADV	_	10 spreads	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Last	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 bird	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spreads	obl
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 like	nsubj
7	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	acl:relcl
10	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 plumes	nmod:poss
12	plumes	plume	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spreads	obj
13	For	for	ADP	_	14 pride	case
14	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spreads	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 palace	punct
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 palace	case
17	Conor	Conor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 palace	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Conor	case
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spreads	parataxis
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 returned	nsubj
21	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 palace	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spreads	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	obj
26	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 found	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 glooms	case
28	presageful	presageful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 glooms	amod
29	glooms	gloom	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seated	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 cried	punct
31	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 cried	cc
32	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spreads	conj
33	as	as	ADV	_	32 cried	advmod
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 shape	mark
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 shape	det
36	reptile	reptile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 shape	amod
37	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cried	advcl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 spurned	nsubj
39	spurned	spurn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 shape	acl:relcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Woe	punct
41	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 Woe	punct
42	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cried	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 woe	punct
44	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Woe	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 gone	punct
46	for	for	ADP	_	49 brightness	case
47	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 brightness	nmod:poss
48	’s	's	PART	_	47 Deirdré	case
49	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 gone	obl
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 gone	cop
51	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 butterfly	advcl
52	by	by	ADP	_	56 moth	case
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 by	punct
54	--	--	PUNCT	_	52 by	punct
55	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 moth	amod
56	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 gone	obl
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 butterfly	cop
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 butterfly	nsubj
59	that	that	ADV	_	60 once	advmod
60	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	62 butterfly	advmod
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 butterfly	cop
62	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spreads	parataxis
63	!	!	PUNCT	_	62 butterfly	punct
64	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 spreads	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	present		maid's plumes		like that bird; for pride; Conor's palace parataxis; last property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plume=Theme
2	return	past	Conor	Conor's palace not said here			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
3	find	past		speed			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
4	seat	participle	speed not said here		presageful glooms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in gloom=Location
5	cry speech: express	past		Woe and woe		some reptile shape advcl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	spurn	past	Conor	some reptile shape not said here			tree rules
7	is	present	Conor not said here			for Deirdré's brightness; by Brown moth; go property	tree rules
8	is a	present	Conor	butterfly		once property	tree rules

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 6, sentence 71