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title: On that airy height A wan lake glittered, whitening in the blast, Pa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On that airy height A wan lake glittered, whitening in the blast, Pale plains around it. Who acts: wan lake. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 227

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On that airy height A wan lake glittered, whitening in the blast, Pale plains around it.

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**Who acts:** wan lake · **What happens:** glitter, whiten · **To what, where:** airy height, blast

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wan 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:pg78491:11:229
# text = On that airy height A wan lake glittered, whitening in the blast, Pale plains around it.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	whitening	whiten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | participle | a wan lake |  |  | that airy height |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on height=Location |
| 2 | **whiten** | gerund | a wan lake *not said here* |  |  | the blast and Pale plains around lake |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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