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title: Her great wide eyes, clasped hands, and lips compressed, Better than… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her great wide eyes, clasped hands, and lips compressed, Better than words enforced the unending quest. Who acts: great wide eyes, words. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 29

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Her great wide eyes, clasped hands, and lips compressed, Better than words enforced the unending quest.

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**Who acts:** great wide eyes, words · **What happens:** clasp, compress, enforce · **To what, where:** hands, lips, unending quest

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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 (great wide eyes, words), 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:pg78491:3:29
# text = Her great wide eyes, clasped hands, and lips compressed, Better than words enforced the unending quest.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	compressed	compress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	enforced	enforce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	unending	unending	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clasp** | past | Ogham's great wide eyes | hands |  |  |  | lips *obl* | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **compress** | participle |  | lips *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **enforce** | participle | words *not said here* | the unending quest |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Theme |

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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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