--- title: Sea-blue were her eyes, And berry-red her scornful lip; her cheek Wh… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Sea-blue were her eyes, And berry-red her scornful lip; her cheek White as the snow-drift of a single night; Her voice like harp-strings when the harper’s hand Half drowns their pathos. Who acts: Sea blue, berry, hand Half. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea blue, berry, hand Half), 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:pg78491:11:77 # text = Sea-blue were her eyes, And berry-red her scornful lip; her cheek White as the snow-drift of a single night; Her voice like harp-strings when the harper’s hand Half drowns their pathos. 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 blue blue NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 And and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 berry berry NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 scornful scornful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 lip lip NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 18 White White PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 drift drift NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 harp harp NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 35 when when SCONJ WRB _ 41 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 harper harper NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’s 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 Half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 41 nsubj _ _ 41 drowns drown VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 pathos pathos NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Sea blue | Eclipse's eyes and Eclipse's red scornful lip and Eclipse's cheek as the snow drift of a single night and Eclipse's voice like harp strings | | | | Eclipse *nmod:poss*; Eclipse's cheek as the snow drift of a single night and Eclipse's voice like harp strings *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **lip** | | berry | | | | | Eclipse *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 3 | **drown** | present | hand Half | strings's pathos | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pathos=Patient | | 4 | **drift** | | | a single night | | | | | nom drift «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/76/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)