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title: Twas sweet as theirs--more sweet--yet terrible At first; and sudden… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twas sweet as theirs--more sweet--yet terrible At first; and sudden trembling on them fell. Who acts: trembling. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 57

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Twas sweet as theirs--more sweet--yet terrible At first; and sudden trembling on them fell.

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**Who acts:** trembling · **What happens:** tremble, fall

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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 (trembling), 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:pg78491:10:57
# text = Twas sweet as theirs--more sweet--yet terrible At first; and sudden trembling on them fell.
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
11	At	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
16	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on Twas *= twa* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | past | trembling |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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