The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 70

Then Conn came floating by, full blithe of cheer, For he, secure within a craggy cleft, Had slept all night; and now once more his nest He made beneath his snowy sister’s breast.

Who acts: Conn, nest · What happens: come, float, secure, sleep, make

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, nest), 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	3 came	advmod
2	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 came	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 blithe	case
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 blithe	punct
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blithe	amod
8	blithe	blithe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floating	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cheer	case
10	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blithe	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 secure	punct
12	For	for	SCONJ	_	15 secure	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 secure	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 he	punct
15	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
16	within	within	ADP	_	19 cleft	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cleft	det
18	craggy	craggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cleft	amod
19	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 secure	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 slept	punct
21	Had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 slept	aux
22	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 secure	advcl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 night	det
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slept	obl:unmarked
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 made	cc
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 made	advmod
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 made	advmod
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 nest	nmod:poss
31	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	nsubj
32	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
34	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	39 breast	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 sister	nmod:poss
36	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sister	amod
37	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 breast	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 sister	case
39	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Conn	then		tree rules
2	float	gerund	Conn not said here		by full blithe of cheer	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by blithe=Trajectory
3	secure	infinitive	Conn		within a craggy cleft	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sleep	past · perfect	Conn not said here	night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	past	Conn's nest	now	beneath Conn's snowy sister's breast; Conn nsubj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material

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 9, sentence 70