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title: She cast it down; She cried; ‘Since first I sat, a queen new-crowned… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She cast it down; She cried; ‘Since first I sat, a queen new-crowned, Never such ignominy, or spleen of scorn Hath mocked my greatness!’ Who acts: rock, I. 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 tre
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 154

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She cast it down; She cried; ‘Since first I sat, a queen new-crowned, Never such ignominy, or spleen of scorn Hath mocked my greatness!’

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**Who acts:** rock, I · **What happens:** cast down, cry, sit, crown, mock · **To what, where:** goblet, queen, greatness

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, I), 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:pg78491:11:156
# text = She cast it down; She cried; ‘Since first I sat, a queen new-crowned, Never such ignominy, or spleen of scorn Hath mocked my greatness!’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ignominy	ignominy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	spleen	spleen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	Hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	mocked	mock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast down** | past | rock | goblet |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | rock |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit** | past | I | a queen and such ignominy |  |  |  | spleen of scorn *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme |
| 4 | **crown** | participle |  | a queen and such ignominy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mock** | present · passive |  | my greatness |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: greatness=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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