The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 60
Then the bad queen, descending, round her cast A baleful look of mingled hate and woe, And with those babes into a thicket passed, And drew a dagger from her breast; and lo!
Who acts: bad queen, sun · What happens: descend, cast, mingle, pass, draw · To what, where: baleful look, babes, dagger, breast, bad queen
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 (bad queen, sun), 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 | 4 queen | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 queen | amod |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 descending | punct |
| 6 | descending | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 queen | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cast | punct |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 cast | mark |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cast | nsubj |
| 10 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 descending | conj |
| 11 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 look | det |
| 12 | baleful | baleful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 look | amod |
| 13 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cast | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hate | case |
| 15 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hate | amod |
| 16 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 woe | cc |
| 18 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hate | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 babes | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 babes | cc |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 babes | case |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 babes | det |
| 23 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 queen | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 thicket | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 thicket | det |
| 26 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 babes | nmod |
| 27 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 babes | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 drew | punct |
| 29 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 drew | cc |
| 30 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 passed | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 dagger | det |
| 32 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drew | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 breast | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 breast | nmod:poss |
| 35 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dagger | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 lo | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 lo | cc |
| 38 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 4 queen | discourse |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | gerund | the bad queen and that babes into a thicket not said here | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cast | past | sun | a baleful look of mingled hate and woe | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Product | ||||
| 3 | mingle | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | pass | participle | that babes into a thicket not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | draw | past | a dagger | sun's breast | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme from breast=Initial_Location |
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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