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title: • p. 1: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “goodlier i… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: • p. 1: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “goodlier is this child / Than e’er till now on proudest parent smiled!” Who acts: closing, proudest parent. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16, with its depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 149

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• p. 1: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “goodlier is this child / Than e’er till now on proudest parent smiled!”

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**Who acts:** closing, proudest parent · **What happens:** add, close, be, smile · **To what, where:** • p., single quotation mark, child · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (closing, proudest parent), 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:pg78491:16:152
# text = • p. 1: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “goodlier is this child / Than e’er till now on proudest parent smiled!”
1	•	•	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	closing	close	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	quotation	quotation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	goodlier	goodly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
17	/	/	SYM	,	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Than	Than	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	e’er	e'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	proudest	proud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: express* | participle · passive |  | • p. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **close** | gerund |  | single quotation mark |  |  | after phrase |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | closing | this child / Than e’er |  |  |  | Than e’er *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **smile** *in a quote* | past | proudest parent |  |  |  | now |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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