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title: What else the snow-flakes which thou saw’st but foam Dashed from the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: What else the snow-flakes which thou saw’st but foam Dashed from the horses’ bits? Who acts: snow flakes. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, 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 15, sentence 106

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What else the snow-flakes which thou saw’st but foam Dashed from the horses’ bits?

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**Who acts:** snow flakes · **What happens:** saw'st, dash · **To what, where:** saw’st, bits

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow flakes), 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:pg78491:15:108
# text = What else the snow-flakes which thou saw’st but foam Dashed from the horses’ bits?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw’st	saw'st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	Dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **saw'st** |  | the snow flakes |  |  |  |  | thou *nsubj*; foam *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dash** | participle |  | saw’st but foam *not said here* |  | the horses's bits |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bit=Trajectory |

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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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