--- title: Before its stony threshold slumbering lay Ainli and Ardan, clasping,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Before its stony threshold slumbering lay Ainli and Ardan, clasping, each, a sword, For ever wont were these by night and day Their brother and their sister thus to ward: The intruder o’er them stepp’d and entrance made To where in sleep that princely pair were laid. 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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 (stony threshold, intruder), 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:pg78491:4:61 # text = Before its stony threshold slumbering lay Ainli and Ardan, clasping, each, a sword, For ever wont were these by night and day Their brother and their sister thus to ward: The intruder o’er them stepp’d and entrance made To where in sleep that princely pair were laid. 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 stony stony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 threshold threshold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 slumbering slumber VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Ainli Ainli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 Ardan Ardan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 clasping clasp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 For for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 20 advmod _ _ 20 wont wont VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 20 obj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 thus thus ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 ward ward VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 36 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 intruder intruder NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 o’er o'er VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 stepp stepp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’d 'd NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 44 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 45 To to SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 46 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 53 advmod _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 49 that that SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 50 princely princely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux:pass _ _ 53 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slumber** | gerund | ne’er's stony threshold *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lie** | past | ne’er's stony threshold | Ainli and Ardan and each sword | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ainli=Theme | | 3 | **clasp** | gerund | ne’er's stony threshold *not said here* | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **wont** | infinitive | ne’er's stony threshold *not said here* | Ainli's brother and Ainli's sister | | | ever; night | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | | these | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ward** | to-infinitive | ne’er's stony threshold *not said here* | | | | | thus *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **o'er** | infinitive | the intruder | Ainli | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **stepp** | infinitive | the intruder *not said here* | ’d and entrance | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **make** | participle | | ’d and entrance *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 10 | **lay** | past · passive | | princely pair | | sleep | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sleep=Destination | 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/)