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title: In tears awhile the faded fine one stood; And next, mechanic-wise or… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In tears awhile the faded fine one stood; And next, mechanic-wise oracular, Kept nodding of her head. Who acts: faded fine one. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 66

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In tears awhile the faded fine one stood; And next, mechanic-wise oracular, Kept nodding of her head.

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**Who acts:** faded fine one · **What happens:** fade, stand, keep · **To what, where:** tears, nodding

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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 (faded fine one), 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:pg78491:6:67
# text = In tears awhile the faded fine one stood; And next, mechanic-wise oracular, Kept nodding of her head.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
3	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	mechanic	mechanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	oracular	oracular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
19	nodding	nodding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the faded fine one |  |  | tears |  | awhile *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tear=Location |
| 3 | **keep** | participle | the faded fine one *not said here* | nodding of maid's head |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nodding=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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