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title: With gaze as frank and clear thus answered she, ‘I know you well! th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With gaze as frank and clear thus answered she, ‘I know you well! the eldest of those Three! Who acts: I. 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 26

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With gaze as frank and clear thus answered she, ‘I know you well! the eldest of those Three!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** answer, know · **To what, where:** Had, you

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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: who acts (I), 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:pg78491:4:26
# text = With gaze as frank and clear thus answered she, ‘I know you well! the eldest of those Three!
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	gaze	gaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	frank	frank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Had |  |  | with gaze as frank; thus *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 2 | **know** | present | I | you |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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