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title: With a smile That deepened, Fergus questioned once again: ‘Make larg… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With a smile That deepened, Fergus questioned once again: ‘Make large thine eyes and tell me what thou seest!’ Who acts: That, Fergus, thou. 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 pragm
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 97

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With a smile That deepened, Fergus questioned once again: ‘Make large thine eyes and tell me what thou seest!’

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**Who acts:** That, Fergus, thou · **What happens:** deepen, question, make, tell, see · **To what, where:** large eyes, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, Fergus, thou), 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:pg78491:15:99
# text = With a smile That deepened, Fergus questioned once again: ‘Make large thine eyes and tell me what thou seest!’
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	deepened	deepen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
22	seest	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deepen** | past | That |  |  |  |  | with a smile | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with smile=Instrument |
| 2 | **question** *speech: other* | past | Fergus |  |  |  | again | once *property* | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  | thine large eyes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **see** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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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