The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 63

She smiled that smile which none How wise soe’er, beholding, could resist, And drew those children to her, one by one; Then wailed once more, and last their foreheads kissed, And cried with finger pointing to the lake, ‘Hence! and in that clear bath your pastime take!’

Who acts: mood, smile, foreheads, finger, pastime · What happens: smile, soe'er, behold, resist, draw, wail · To what, where: children, mood, lake, clear bath

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 (mood, smile, foreheads, finger), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smiled	nsubj
2	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 smile	det
4	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 soe’er	nsubj
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 none	det
6	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 soe’er	nsubj
7	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wise	advmod
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soe’er	amod
9	soe’er	soe'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smiled	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beholding	punct
11	beholding	behold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 smiled	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 resist	punct
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 resist	aux
14	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 beholding	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drew	punct
16	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 drew	cc
17	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smiled	parataxis
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 drew	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drew	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 drew	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 one	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 wailed	punct
27	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 wailed	advmod
28	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smiled	parataxis
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 wailed	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 last	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 last	cc
33	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wailed	conj
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 foreheads	nmod:poss
35	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 kissed	nsubj
36	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 last	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cried	punct
38	And	and	CCONJ	_	39 cried	cc
39	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smiled	parataxis
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 finger	case
41	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cried	obl
42	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 finger	acl
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 lake	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 lake	det
45	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pointing	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Hence	punct
47	‘	'	PUNCT	_	48 Hence	punct
48	Hence	hence	ADV	_	39 cried	advmod
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	48 Hence	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 take	cc
51	in	in	ADP	_	54 bath	case
52	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 bath	det
53	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 bath	amod
54	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 take	obl
55	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 pastime	nmod:poss
56	pastime	pastime	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 take	nsubj
57	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 cried	conj
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	57 take	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	57 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past	mood						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	soe'er		that smile					none nsubj	tree rules
3	behold	gerund	mood not said here						tree rules
4	resist	could	mood not said here						tree rules
5	draw	past		that children	mood			one by one conj	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to she=Destination
6	wail	past					then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	last	infinitive							tree rules
8	kiss	past	looks's foreheads						vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	cry speech: express	past						with finger; hence property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with finger=Theme
10	point	gerund	finger not said here		the lake				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lake=Recipient
11	take	infinitive	your pastime			that clear bath			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bath=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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 63