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title: And when, far travelling through the fields of ether, The stars succ… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when, far travelling through the fields of ether, The stars successive filled their thrones of light, Still to that heaven the glimmering lake beneath her Gave meet response, with music answering light; For still, wherever sailed that mystic four, With minstrelsy divine that lake ran o’er. Who a
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 42

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And when, far travelling through the fields of ether, The stars successive filled their thrones of light, Still to that heaven the glimmering lake beneath her Gave meet response, with music answering light; For still, wherever sailed that mystic four, With minstrelsy divine that lake ran o’er.

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**Who acts:** stars, music, lake · **What happens:** travel, fill, answer, sail, run · **To what, where:** fields, thrones, light, minstrelsy divine

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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 (stars, music, lake), 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:pg78491:10:42
# text = And when, far travelling through the fields of ether, The stars successive filled their thrones of light, Still to that heaven the glimmering lake beneath her Gave meet response, with music answering light; For still, wherever sailed that mystic four, With minstrelsy divine that lake ran o’er.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ether	ether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	thrones	throne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	glimmering	glimmering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
28	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	Gave	gave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	meet	meet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
36	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
39	For	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
43	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	With	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	minstrelsy	minstrelsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obj	_	_
52	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
54	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | gerund | the stars *not said here* |  |  | the fields of ether |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fill** | past | the stars | stars's thrones of light |  |  |  | the glimmering lake to that heaven beneath heaven's Gave meet response *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent throne=Patient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | music *not said here* | light |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sail** | past | the stars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with minstrelsy divine; mystic four *advcl*; wherever *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **run** | past | lake | minstrelsy divine |  |  |  | o’er *obj* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary o'er=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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