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title: The Ill Spirits heard their knell, And shrieking fled to penal dunge… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ill Spirits heard their knell, And shrieking fled to penal dungeons drear; And straight, since now those blissful Four drew near, Who acts: Ill Spirits, shrieking, blissful Four, Spirits. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Openi
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 63

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The Ill Spirits heard their knell, And shrieking fled to penal dungeons drear; And straight, since now those blissful Four drew near,

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**Who acts:** Ill Spirits, shrieking, blissful Four, Spirits · **What happens:** hear, flee, draw, knell · **To what, where:** knell, dungeons drear

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ill Spirits, shrieking, blissful Four, Spirits), 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:pg78491:10:63
# text = The Ill Spirits heard their knell, And shrieking fled to penal dungeons drear; And straight, since now those blissful Four drew near,
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knell	knell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	shrieking	shrieking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	penal	penal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dungeons	dungeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	drear	drear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	blissful	blissful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
24	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	near	near	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the Ill Spirits | Spirits's knell |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knell=Stimulus |
| 2 | **flee** | past | shrieking |  |  | dungeons drear |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to drear=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **draw** | past | that blissful Four |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **knell** |  | Spirits *= spirit* |  |  |  |  |  | nom knell «event transitive»: poss=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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