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title: Between them stretched from pillow on to pillow The massive trail of… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Between them stretched from pillow on to pillow The massive trail of Deirdré’s luminous hair, Like gold-touched tendrils of a budded willow Breeze-blown against the dawn. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 61

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Between them stretched from pillow on to pillow The massive trail of Deirdré’s luminous hair, Like gold-touched tendrils of a budded willow Breeze-blown against the dawn.

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**What happens:** stretch, touch, bud, blow · **To what, where:** ’d, pillow, budded willow

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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:pg78491:4:62
# text = Between them stretched from pillow on to pillow The massive trail of Deirdré’s luminous hair, Like gold-touched tendrils of a budded willow Breeze-blown against the dawn.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	luminous	luminous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	budded	bud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	Breeze	Breeze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | participle · passive |  | ’d *= 'd* |  | pillow |  | on pillow; like touched tendrils of a budded willow; the massive trail of Deirdré's luminous hair *obj* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient trail=Result |
| 2 | **touch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gold *compound* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bud** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **blow** | participle |  | a budded willow *not said here* |  |  | dawn |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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