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title: She spake! around her lip a smile there curled; Her kindling eye was… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She spake! around her lip a smile there curled; Her kindling eye was fixed as eye of one Who sees, beyond the limits of the world, Beyond the thresholds of our moon and sun, Beyond the abysmal night, a gleam of day, And can abide the issue come what may. Who acts: pit, smile, issue. A sentence of «T
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 44

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She spake! around her lip a smile there curled; Her kindling eye was fixed as eye of one Who sees, beyond the limits of the world, Beyond the thresholds of our moon and sun, Beyond the abysmal night, a gleam of day, And can abide the issue come what may.

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**Who acts:** pit, smile, issue · **What happens:** speak, curl, fix, see, abide, come · **To what, where:** lip, kindling eye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pit, smile, issue), 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:pg78491:6:45
# text = She spake! around her lip a smile there curled; Her kindling eye was fixed as eye of one Who sees, beyond the limits of the world, Beyond the thresholds of our moon and sun, Beyond the abysmal night, a gleam of day, And can abide the issue come what may.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	kindling	kindling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
21	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	Beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	thresholds	threshold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	Beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	abysmal	abysmal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	ccomp	_	_
56	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	55	obl	_	_
57	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | pit |  |  | pit's lip |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **curl** | participle | a smile | pit's lip *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient |
| 3 | **fix** | past · passive |  | pit's kindling eye |  |  | night | as eye; beyond the limits of the world; beyond the thresholds of our moon and sun | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | present |  |  |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **abide** | can | pit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | present | the issue |  |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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