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title: Then Conn came floating by, full blithe of cheer, For he, secure wit… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Conn came floating by, full blithe of cheer, For he, secure within a craggy cleft, Had slept all night; and now once more his nest He made beneath his snowy sister’s breast. Who acts: Conn, nest. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Ve
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 70

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Then Conn came floating by, full blithe of cheer, For he, secure within a craggy cleft, Had slept all night; and now once more his nest He made beneath his snowy sister’s breast.

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**Who acts:** Conn, nest · **What happens:** come, float, secure, sleep, make

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, nest), 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:pg78491:9:71
# text = Then Conn came floating by, full blithe of cheer, For he, secure within a craggy cleft, Had slept all night; and now once more his nest He made beneath his snowy sister’s breast.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	blithe	blithe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	within	within	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	craggy	craggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Conn |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **float** | gerund | Conn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by full blithe of cheer | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by blithe=Trajectory |
| 3 | **secure** | infinitive | Conn |  |  |  |  | within a craggy cleft | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sleep** | past · perfect | Conn *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | past | Conn's nest |  |  |  | now | beneath Conn's snowy sister's breast; Conn *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |

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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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