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title: And proud be thou, for goodlier is this child Than e’er till now on… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And proud be thou, for goodlier is this child Than e’er till now on proudest parent smiled!’ Who acts: child Than e’er. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 77

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And proud be thou, for goodlier is this child Than e’er till now on proudest parent smiled!’

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**Who acts:** child Than e’er · **What happens:** be, smile · **To what, where:** thou

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child Than e’er), 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:pg78491:2:82
# text = And proud be thou, for goodlier is this child Than e’er till now on proudest parent smiled!’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	goodlier	goodly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Than	Than	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	e’er	e'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	till	till	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	proudest	proud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for this goodlier child | tree rules |
| 3 | **smile** | past | child Than e’er |  |  |  |  | proudest parent *nsubj* | 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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