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title: Therein a little maiden-wonder lay Unlike all babes besides in mien… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therein a little maiden-wonder lay Unlike all babes besides in mien and hue, Bright as a lily-bud at break of day That flashes through the night’s unlifted dew: Beaming her eyes; like planets glad and fair: And o’er her forehead curved a fringe of hair. Who acts: little maiden wonder, day, forehead.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 81

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Therein a little maiden-wonder lay Unlike all babes besides in mien and hue, Bright as a lily-bud at break of day That flashes through the night’s unlifted dew: Beaming her eyes; like planets glad and fair: And o’er her forehead curved a fringe of hair.

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**Who acts:** little maiden wonder, day, forehead · **What happens:** lay, flash, unlift, beam, curve, break · **To what, where:** day, unlifted dew, eyes, fringe

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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 (little maiden wonder, day, forehead), 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:pg78491:2:86
# text = Therein a little maiden-wonder lay Unlike all babes besides in mien and hue, Bright as a lily-bud at break of day That flashes through the night’s unlifted dew: Beaming her eyes; like planets glad and fair: And o’er her forehead curved a fringe of hair.
1	Therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mien	mien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	appos	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
28	flashes	flash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	unlifted	unlift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Beaming	beam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
42	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
46	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	o’er	o'er	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	curved	curve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	fringe	fringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | infinitive | a little maiden wonder |  |  |  |  | unlike all babes; besides mien and hue; therein *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flash** | present | day | day *not said here* |  | the night's unlifted dew |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent day=Theme |
| 3 | **unlift** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **beam** | gerund | a little maiden wonder *not said here* | wonder's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 5 | **curve** | past | wonder's forehead | a fringe of hair |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent fringe=Material |
| 6 | **break** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom break «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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