The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 39

Then, as a poplar near a river whitens By gusts o’er-blown, and as some snowy vale Grows grimly dark when sudden o’er it brightens The mountain’s moonlit flank, thus dark, thus pale, Grew Conor with far eyes their course pursuing; ‘They ’scape,’ he cried, ‘and that is my undoing!

Who acts: snowy vale, sudden o’er, hosts, vale, that · What happens: whiten, blow, grow, brighten, ', cry · To what, where: gusts, moonlit flank, scape, ‘, undoing

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snowy vale, sudden o’er, hosts, vale), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 whitens	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 poplar	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 poplar	det
5	poplar	poplar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whitens	obl
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poplar	nmod
9	whitens	whiten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	By	by	ADP	_	11 gusts	case
11	gusts	gust	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 whitens	obl
12	o’er	o'er	SCONJ	_	14 blown	mark
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 o’er	punct
14	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 gusts	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Grows	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Grows	cc
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 vale	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 vale	det
19	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 vale	amod
20	vale	vale	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Grows	nsubj
21	Grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 whitens	conj
22	grimly	grimly	ADV	_	23 dark	advmod
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Grows	xcomp
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 brightens	advmod
25	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 o’er	amod
26	o’er	o'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brightens	nsubj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 brightens	nsubj
28	brightens	brighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Grows	advcl
29	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mountain	det
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flank	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 mountain	case
32	moonlit	moonlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flank	amod
33	flank	flank	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brightens	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dark	punct
35	thus	thus	ADV	_	36 dark	advmod
36	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flank	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pale	punct
38	thus	thus	ADV	_	39 pale	advmod
39	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dark	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Grew	punct
41	Grew	Grew	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 dark	advcl
42	Conor	Conor	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Grew	flat
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 eyes	case
44	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 eyes	amod
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 dark	obl
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 pursuing	nmod:poss
47	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pursuing	compound
48	pursuing	pursuing	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 eyes	nmod
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 ’	punct
50	‘	'	PUNCT	_	52 ’	punct
51	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 ’	nsubj
52	’	'	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 whitens	conj
53	scape	scape	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 ’	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 cried	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	57 cried	punct
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 cried	nsubj
57	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 ’	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 ‘	punct
59	‘	‘	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 cried	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 undoing	cc
61	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	64 undoing	nsubj
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 undoing	cop
63	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 undoing	nmod:poss
64	undoing	undoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 ‘	conj
65	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 whitens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	whiten	present			then	as a poplar near a river; by gusts	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	blow	participle		gusts not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	grow	present	some snowy vale			dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	brighten	present	sudden o’er	the mountain's moonlit flank		o’er = o'er nsubj	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flank=Patient
5	'	present	hosts = host	scape			tree rules
6	cry speech: express	past	vale	‘ and my undoing			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	that	my undoing		my nmod:poss	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 7, sentence 39