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title: And thrice they dreamed that in the morning gray They gathered there… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thrice they dreamed that in the morning gray They gathered there red roses drenched with dew: But lo! a serpent ’neath the roses lay: Then came the Tailkenn, and that serpent slew; And round the Tailkenn’s tonsured head was light That made that morning more than noonday bright. Who acts: thrice,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 26

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And thrice they dreamed that in the morning gray They gathered there red roses drenched with dew: But lo! a serpent ’neath the roses lay: Then came the Tailkenn, and that serpent slew; And round the Tailkenn’s tonsured head was light That made that morning more than noonday bright.

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**Who acts:** thrice, sports, roses, tonsured head, That · **What happens:** dream, gather, drench, lay, come, roun · **To what, where:** serpent, red roses, morning gray, Tailkenn, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thrice, sports, roses, tonsured head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:10:26
# text = And thrice they dreamed that in the morning gray They gathered there red roses drenched with dew: But lo! a serpent ’neath the roses lay: Then came the Tailkenn, and that serpent slew; And round the Tailkenn’s tonsured head was light That made that morning more than noonday bright.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thrice	thrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	drenched	drench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	neath	neath	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Tailkenn	Tailkenn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
37	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	slew	slew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
40	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	round	roun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Tailkenn	Tailkenn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’s	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	tonsured	tonsure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	ccomp	_	_
49	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	nsubj	_	_
50	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	ccomp	_	_
51	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
52	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl:unmarked	_	_
53	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	50	obj	_	_
54	than	than	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	noonday	noonday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | past | thrice | a serpent |  |  |  | sports *= sport* *nsubj* | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **gather** | past | sports *= sport* | red roses |  | the morning gray; there |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme |
| 3 | **drench** | participle |  | red roses *not said here* |  |  |  | with dew | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dew=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | present | the roses |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | the roses *not said here* | the Tailkenn |  |  | then | that serpent slew *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tailkenn=Theme |
| 6 | **roun** | past | thrice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **tonsure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | the Tailkenn's tonsured head |  |  |  |  | light *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **make** | past | That | more |  |  | morning |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product |

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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.

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**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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