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title: Beauteous as heaven that gladsome captive was; With every month more… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Beauteous as heaven that gladsome captive was; With every month more fair, more gladsome grew; Her pastime, counting jewels in the grass, Emerald and amethyst, and sapphire blue, Or chasing--never part had she in sloth-- From bloom to bloom the evening-gilded moth. Who acts: gladsome captive, Beaute
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 13

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Beauteous as heaven that gladsome captive was; With every month more fair, more gladsome grew; Her pastime, counting jewels in the grass, Emerald and amethyst, and sapphire blue, Or chasing--never part had she in sloth-- From bloom to bloom the evening-gilded moth.

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**Who acts:** gladsome captive, Beauteous, pastime, part, bloom · **What happens:** be, grow, count, chase, have, bloom · **To what, where:** pastime, jewels, grass, Deirdré, bloom, gilded moth

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gladsome captive, Beauteous, pastime, part), 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:pg78491:3:13
# text = Beauteous as heaven that gladsome captive was; With every month more fair, more gladsome grew; Her pastime, counting jewels in the grass, Emerald and amethyst, and sapphire blue, Or chasing--never part had she in sloth-- From bloom to bloom the evening-gilded moth.
1	Beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	gladsome	gladsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	With	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	gladsome	gladsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pastime	pastime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	amethyst	amethyst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	sapphire	sapphire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	From	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	bloom	bloom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
51	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	amod	_	_
54	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | gladsome captive |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Beauteous as heaven | Deirdré's pastime |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **count** | gerund | Deirdré's pastime *not said here* | jewels |  | the grass and amethyst |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme |
| 4 | **chase** | gerund | Beauteous as heaven *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | past | part | Deirdré |  | bloom |  | in sloth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 6 | **bloom** | infinitive | bloom *not said here* | the gilded moth |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location moth=Theme |
| 7 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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