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title: A lily’s gleam Shines thus, reflected in the lake below, More softly… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A lily’s gleam Shines thus, reflected in the lake below, More softly, green for green, and snow for snow. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 11

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A lily’s gleam Shines thus, reflected in the lake below, More softly, green for green, and snow for snow.

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**What happens:** reflect · **To what, where:** gleam Shines, lake

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78491:4:11
# text = A lily’s gleam Shines thus, reflected in the lake below, More softly, green for green, and snow for snow.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Shines	shine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	below	below	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | participle · passive |  | gleam Shines |  | the lake |  | snow for snow *obl*; thus *property* | tree rules |

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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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