The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 67

Straightway to snow-white swans those children turned: And, sideway as they swerved the creatures four Fixed on her looks with human grief that yearned; Then slowly drifted backward from the shore; While loud with voice unchanged, Finola cried, ‘Bad deed is thine, false queen and bitter bride!

Who acts: Straightway, looks, human grief, Finola, Bad deed · What happens: turn, swerve, fix, yearn, drift, cry · To what, where: sideway, creatures, looks, shore, false 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 (Straightway, looks, human grief, Finola), 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	Straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	6 swans	case
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swans	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swans	amod
6	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Straightway	nmod
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 sideway	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 sideway	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 And	punct
13	sideway	sideway	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 swerved	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 swerved	nsubj
16	swerved	swerve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 creatures	det
18	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 swerved	obj
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 creatures	appos
20	Fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 four	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 looks	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 looks	nmod:poss
23	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 Fixed	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 grief	case
25	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grief	amod
26	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looks	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 yearned	nsubj
28	yearned	yearn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 grief	acl:relcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 drifted	punct
30	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 drifted	advmod
31	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	32 drifted	advmod
32	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
33	backward	backward	ADV	_	32 drifted	advmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 shore	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shore	det
36	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drifted	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 loud	punct
38	While	while	SCONJ	_	39 loud	mark
39	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turned	parataxis
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 voice	case
41	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 loud	obl
42	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 loud	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 cried	punct
44	Finola	Finola	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 cried	nsubj
45	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 queen	punct
47	‘	'	PUNCT	_	54 queen	punct
48	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 deed	amod
49	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 queen	nsubj
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 queen	cop
51	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	54 queen	nmod:poss
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 queen	punct
53	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 queen	amod
54	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cried	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 bride	cc
56	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 bride	amod
57	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 queen	conj
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Straightway to snow white swans	sideway			that children nsubj	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	swerve	past	looks = look	the creatures				vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location creature=Theme
3	fix	participle			child's looks with human grief			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	yearn	past	human grief					vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot
5	drift	past	Straightway to snow white swans not said here		the shore	then	backward, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from shore=Trajectory
6	cry speech: express	past	Finola					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	Bad deed	thine false queen and bitter bride			thine nmod:poss; bitter bride conj	tree rules

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 67