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title: Then she; ‘I note Girdling their slopes a mist feathery and soft, As… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she; ‘I note Girdling their slopes a mist feathery and soft, As though of snow-flakes wov’n: above it peaks Shoot up, like isles cloud-hid. Who acts: Fergus, mist, cloud. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, wit
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 95

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Then she; ‘I note Girdling their slopes a mist feathery and soft, As though of snow-flakes wov’n: above it peaks Shoot up, like isles cloud-hid.

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**Who acts:** Fergus, mist, cloud · **What happens:** note, girdle, peak, shoot up, hide · **To what, where:** slopes

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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 (Fergus, mist, cloud), 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:pg78491:15:97
# text = Then she; ‘I note Girdling their slopes a mist feathery and soft, As though of snow-flakes wov’n: above it peaks Shoot up, like isles cloud-hid.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	note	note	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Girdling	girdle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	As	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	wov’n	wov'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	above	above	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	peaks	peak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	Shoot	shoot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
32	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **note** | present | Fergus |  |  |  | then | I *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **girdle** | gerund | Fergus *not said here* | eyes's slopes |  |  |  | a mist *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **peak** | present | mist |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shoot up** | present | mist *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hide** | past | cloud |  |  |  |  | like isles | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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