🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 51

Their mother’s bridal-veil: and still as dawn Was in its glittering tissue caged and caught He left his couch, and, that light veil withdrawn, Before his children stood in silent thought; And, if they slept, he kissed them in their sleep, Then watched them with clasped hands in musings deep.

Who acts: Was, children, Meantime · What happens: cage, catch, leave, withdraw, stand, sleep · To what, where: light veil, couch, silent thought, Meantime, sleep, bridal veil

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 (Was, children, Meantime), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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