---
title: Queenly was her brow; Fulgent her eye; her countenance beauteous, sa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Queenly was her brow; Fulgent her eye; her countenance beauteous, save When wrath o’er-flamed its beauty. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/) / 13

# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 13

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Queenly was her brow; Fulgent her eye; her countenance beauteous, save When wrath o’er-flamed its beauty.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, save, flame · **To what, where:** brow, eye, wrath flamed beauty

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:11:15
# text = Queenly was her brow; Fulgent her eye; her countenance beauteous, save When wrath o’er-flamed its beauty.
1	Queenly	queenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Fulgent	fulgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
12	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	wrath	wrath	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
17	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	flamed	flame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | warrioress's brow |  |  |  | warrioress *nmod:poss*; warrioress's countenance *appos*; queenly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  | warrioress's eye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* | eye's wrath flamed beauty |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme |
| 4 | **flame** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | o’er *compound* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/12/)
- next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/14/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)