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title: Meantime, as month by month in grace they grew, Their father loved t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meantime, as month by month in grace they grew, Their father loved them better than before; And so, one eve, their slender cots he drew Each from its place remote, and lightly bore, And laid them ranged before his royal bed; And o’er the four a veil gold-woven spread; Who acts: Meantime, father, one
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 50

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Meantime, as month by month in grace they grew, Their father loved them better than before; And so, one eve, their slender cots he drew Each from its place remote, and lightly bore, And laid them ranged before his royal bed; And o’er the four a veil gold-woven spread;

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**Who acts:** Meantime, father, one eve · **What happens:** grow, love, draw, bear, lay, range · **To what, where:** Meantime, Each, place remote

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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 (Meantime, father, one eve), 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:pg78491:8:50
# text = Meantime, as month by month in grace they grew, Their father loved them better than before; And so, one eve, their slender cots he drew Each from its place remote, and lightly bore, And laid them ranged before his royal bed; And o’er the four a veil gold-woven spread;
1	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	before	before	ADV	RB	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	cots	cot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
31	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	obj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	xcomp	_	_
45	before	before	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	o’er	o'	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	obl	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
55	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
56	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	amod	_	_
59	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Meantime in grace and month by month |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **love** | past | Meantime's father | Meantime |  |  |  | good *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **draw** | past | one eve and eve's slender cots | Each |  | grace's place remote |  | father *nsubj* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent each=Theme from remote=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **bear** | past | Meantime in grace and month by month *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lightly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **lay** | past | Meantime in grace and month by month *not said here* | Meantime |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **range** | participle | Meantime in grace and month by month *not said here* |  |  |  | before father's royal bed |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **weave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gold *compound* | vn run-51.3.2 «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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