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title: And Lir made answer: ‘Fair she is as when A mist-veiled yew, red-ber… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Lir made answer: ‘Fair she is as when A mist-veiled yew, red-berried, stands in state: Can love, you say! Who acts: Lir, world, you. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 41

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And Lir made answer: ‘Fair she is as when A mist-veiled yew, red-berried, stands in state: Can love, you say!

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**Who acts:** Lir, world, you · **What happens:** make, veil, be, berry, stand, love · **To what, where:** answer, veiled yew, state · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lir, world, you), 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:pg78491:8:41
# text = And Lir made answer: ‘Fair she is as when A mist-veiled yew, red-berried, stands in state: Can love, you say!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
12	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	veiled	veil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	yew	yew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	berried	berry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	love	love	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Lir | answer |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product |
| 2 | **veil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | mist *compound* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | world |  |  |  |  | as a veiled yew | tree rules |
| 4 | **berry** | participle |  | a veiled yew *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stand** | present |  |  |  | state |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in state=Location |
| 6 | **love** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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