--- title: Dreadful are his wheels; Dreadful as breaker arched, when on its cre… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Dreadful are his wheels; Dreadful as breaker arched, when on its crest Stands Fear, and Fate upon the rock-strewn shore: But not sea-rocks they crush, those brazen wheels, But realms, and peoples, and the necks of men. Who acts: wheels, breaker. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wheels, breaker), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:13:103 # text = Dreadful are his wheels; Dreadful as breaker arched, when on its crest Stands Fear, and Fate upon the rock-strewn shore: But not sea-rocks they crush, those brazen wheels, But realms, and peoples, and the necks of men. 1 Dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 breaker breaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 arched arch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 crest crest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Stands stand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 compound _ _ 16 Fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Fate Fate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 22 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 strewn strewn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 But but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 crush crush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 36 brazen brazen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 But but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 realms realm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | Perforce's Dreadful wheels | | | | Perforce *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 2 | **arch** | participle | | breaker *not said here* | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **crush** | present | wheels *= wheel* | sea rocks and that brazen wheels but realms and peoples and the necks of men *not said here* | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient | | 5 | **fear** | | breaker | | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/102/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/)