--- title: Returned, more lofty looked she than at morn; With more of inward gl… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Returned, more lofty looked she than at morn; With more of inward gladness, yet less gay; More confident, though lost her girlish scorn In some half womanhood’s benigner ray: Smiling, she met her nurse’s smile, and then ‘Naisi,’ she said, ‘will love me! 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deirdré, Naisi, half womanhood, nurse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:3:80 # text = Returned, more lofty looked she than at morn; With more of inward gladness, yet less gay; More confident, though lost her girlish scorn In some half womanhood’s benigner ray: Smiling, she met her nurse’s smile, and then ‘Naisi,’ she said, ‘will love me! 1 Returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 4 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 5 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 morn morn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 With with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 inward inward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 gladness gladness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 yet yet ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 19 gay gay NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 More more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 confident confident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 though though SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 girlish girlish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 scorn scorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 In in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 31 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 32 compound _ _ 32 womanhood womanhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 benigner benign ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 amod _ _ 35 ray ray NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Smiling smile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’s 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 47 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 49 advmod _ _ 48 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 Naisi Naisi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ 52 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 ccomp _ _ 58 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | | Deirdré | | | | than morn; lofty *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Attribute | | 3 | **lose** | past | | Deirdré's girlish scorn | | some half womanhood's benigner ray | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorn=Eventuality | | 4 | **smile** | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **meet** | past | Deirdré | Deirdré's nurse's smile | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Co-Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Naisi | | | | | Deirdré *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **love** | future | | me | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 8 | **scorn** | | Deirdré | | | | | | nom scorn «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **ray** | | some half womanhood | | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **smile** | | Deirdré's nurse | | | | | | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/81/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/)