The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 46

On whom the new queen cast a glance oblique One moment’s space; then, flinging wide her arms, With instinct changed, and impulse lightning-like, Clasped them in turn and wondered at their charms, And cried, ‘If e’er a stepmother could love I of that tribe renowned will tenderest prove.’

Who acts: new queen, stepmother, I · What happens: cast, fling, change, impulse, clasp, wonder · To what, where: glance oblique, arms, instinct, turn, charms, tenderest · 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 (new queen, stepmother, I), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cast	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 queen	amod
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cast	nsubj
6	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 oblique	det
8	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 oblique	compound
9	oblique	oblique	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cast	obj
10	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 moment	nummod
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 space	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 moment	case
13	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cast	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 flinging	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 flinging	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flinging	punct
17	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cast	advcl
18	wide	wide	ADV	_	20 arms	advmod
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flinging	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 instinct	punct
22	With	with	ADP	_	23 instinct	case
23	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flinging	obl
24	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 instinct	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 impulse	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 impulse	cc
27	impulse	impulse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 flinging	conj
28	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 like	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 lightning	punct
30	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 impulse	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Clasped	punct
32	Clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cast	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 Clasped	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 turn	case
35	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Clasped	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 wondered	cc
37	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Clasped	conj
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 charms	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 charms	nmod:poss
40	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 wondered	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 cried	punct
42	And	and	CCONJ	_	43 cried	cc
43	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cast	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 love	punct
45	‘	'	PUNCT	_	51 love	punct
46	If	if	SCONJ	_	47 e’er	mark
47	e’er	e'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 love	advcl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 stepmother	det
49	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 love	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 love	aux
51	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 cried	ccomp
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 renowned	nsubj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 tribe	case
54	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 tribe	det
55	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 renowned	obl
56	renowned	renown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 love	parataxis
57	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 tenderest	aux
58	tenderest	tender	ADJ	Degree=Sup	56 renowned	obl
59	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 tenderest	xcomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 love	punct
61	’	'	PUNCT	_	51 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	past	the new queen	a glance oblique			whom obl; One moment's space obj	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent oblique=Beneficiary space=Product
2	fling	gerund	the new queen not said here	child's arms		then	with instinct	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	change	participle		instinct not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	impulse	present	the new queen not said here					tree rules
5	clasp	past	the new queen not said here	arms = arm	turn			vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	wonder speech: ask	past	the new queen not said here		arms's charms			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	cry speech: express	past	the new queen not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	love	could	a stepmother				e’er advcl	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
9	renown	past	I	tenderest			of that tribe	tree rules
10	prove	infinitive	I not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 46