The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 41
And Lir made answer: ‘Fair she is as when A mist-veiled yew, red-berried, stands in state: Can love, you say!
Who acts: Lir, world, you · What happens: make, veil, be, berry, stand, love · To what, where: answer, veiled yew, state · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lir, world, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 made | cc |
| 2 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fair | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fair | punct |
| 7 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 yew | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 yew | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 yew | case |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 yew | advmod |
| 12 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 yew | det |
| 13 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 veiled | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 mist | punct |
| 15 | veiled | veil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 yew | amod |
| 16 | yew | yew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 berried | punct |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 berried | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 red | punct |
| 20 | berried | berry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 yew | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stands | punct |
| 22 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 yew | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 state | case |
| 24 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stands | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 love | punct |
| 26 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 love | aux |
| 27 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 say | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 say | nsubj |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 love | parataxis |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Lir | answer | fair property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product | |||
| 2 | veil | participle | mist compound | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | world | as a veiled yew | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | berry | participle | a veiled yew not said here | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stand | present | state | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in state=Location | |||||
| 6 | love | can | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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