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title: And ever as the spring advanced, the sea Put on a kindlier aspect. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And ever as the spring advanced, the sea Put on a kindlier aspect. Who acts: sea. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 73

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And ever as the spring advanced, the sea Put on a kindlier aspect.

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**Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** put · **To what, where:** kindlier aspect

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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 (sea), 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:pg78491:9:74
# text = And ever as the spring advanced, the sea Put on a kindlier aspect.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	Put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	kindlier	kindly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | infinitive | the sea |  |  | a kindlier aspect |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on aspect=Destination |

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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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