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title: Thus happy lived the pair, and happier far When four fair children g… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus happy lived the pair, and happier far When four fair children graced the royal house, Fairer than flowers, more bright than moon or star Shining through vista long of forest boughs. Who acts: four fair children, star. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroi
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 18

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Thus happy lived the pair, and happier far When four fair children graced the royal house, Fairer than flowers, more bright than moon or star Shining through vista long of forest boughs.

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**Who acts:** four fair children, star · **What happens:** live, grace, shine · **To what, where:** pair, royal house, vista

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four fair children, star), 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:pg78491:8:18
# text = Thus happy lived the pair, and happier far When four fair children graced the royal house, Fairer than flowers, more bright than moon or star Shining through vista long of forest boughs.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
10	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	graced	grace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	parataxis	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	Shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	vista	vista	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | the pair |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pair=Location |
| 2 | **grace** | past | four fair children | the royal house |  |  |  | far *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Destination |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | star *not said here* |  |  | vista |  | long *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through vista=Location |

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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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