--- title: These beauteous creatures with their mother shared Alike her blissfu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: These beauteous creatures with their mother shared Alike her blissful nature and sweet looks, Like her swan-soft, swan-white, blue-eyed, bright-haired, With voices musical as birds or brooks: Beings they seemed reserved for some great fate, Mysterious, high, elect, and separate. Who acts: beauteous --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/) / 20 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 20 These beauteous creatures with their mother shared Alike her blissful nature and sweet looks, Like her swan-soft, swan-white, blue-eyed, bright-haired, With voices musical as birds or brooks: Beings they seemed reserved for some great fate, Mysterious, high, elect, and separate. **Who acts:** beauteous creatures · **What happens:** share, reserve · **To what, where:** Beings 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 (beauteous creatures), 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:pg78491:8:20 # text = These beauteous creatures with their mother shared Alike her blissful nature and sweet looks, Like her swan-soft, swan-white, blue-eyed, bright-haired, With voices musical as birds or brooks: Beings they seemed reserved for some great fate, Mysterious, high, elect, and separate. 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 2 beauteous beauteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 shared share VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Alike alike ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 blissful blissful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 Like like SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 eyed eyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 With with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 musical musical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 brooks brook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 42 Beings being NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 reserved reserve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 49 det _ _ 48 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 Mysterious mysterious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 55 elect elect NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | past | this beauteous creatures with creatures's mother | | | | | alike yearling's blissful nature and sweet looks | tree rules | | 2 | **reserve** | past · passive | | Beings | | | | for some great fate and elect | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for fate=Beneficiary | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/21/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/)