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title: At times they gambolled in the sunny sheen; At times, Fiacre and Aod… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At times they gambolled in the sunny sheen; At times, Fiacre and Aodh at her side, Finola paced the high-arched alleys green, At once their youthful playmate and their guide: A mother-hearted child she walked, and pressed That infant, daily heavier, to her breast. Who acts: Beings, Finola. A sentenc
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 21

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At times they gambolled in the sunny sheen; At times, Fiacre and Aodh at her side, Finola paced the high-arched alleys green, At once their youthful playmate and their guide: A mother-hearted child she walked, and pressed That infant, daily heavier, to her breast.

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**Who acts:** Beings, Finola · **What happens:** gamboll, pace, arch, walk, press · **To what, where:** sunny sheen, arched alleys, mother hearted child, That

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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 (Beings, Finola), 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:pg78491:8:21
# text = At times they gambolled in the sunny sheen; At times, Fiacre and Aodh at her side, Finola paced the high-arched alleys green, At once their youthful playmate and their guide: A mother-hearted child she walked, and pressed That infant, daily heavier, to her breast.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gambolled	gamboll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sheen	sheen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
10	At	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Fiacre	Fiacre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Aodh	Aodh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	paced	pace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	arched	arch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	alleys	alley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
27	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	At	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	33	advmod	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	playmate	playmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
48	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	obj	_	_
49	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gamboll** | past | Beings *= being* |  |  | the sunny sheen | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pace** | past | Beings *= being* *not said here* | the arched alleys |  |  | time | Beings's youthful playmate and Beings's guide and a mother hearted child *parataxis*; green *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location alley=Theme |
| 3 | **arch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **walk** | past | Finola | a mother hearted child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Agent |
| 5 | **press** | past |  | That |  |  |  | infant *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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