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title: There sat the queen Throned in her car, listening the host’s applaus… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There sat the queen Throned in her car, listening the host’s applause: In swoon she fell, and lay as lie the dead. Who acts: Queen. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 179

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There sat the queen Throned in her car, listening the host’s applause: In swoon she fell, and lay as lie the dead.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** sit, throne, listen, fall, lay, lie · **To what, where:** queen, car, applause, swoon, dead

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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 (Queen), 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:pg78491:11:181
# text = There sat the queen Throned in her car, listening the host’s applause: In swoon she fell, and lay as lie the dead.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	Throned	throne	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	applause	applause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	In	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	swoon	swoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | the queen |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme |
| 2 | **throne** | participle |  | the queen *not said here* |  | Queen's car |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** | gerund |  | the host's applause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Queen |  |  | swoon |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in swoon=Location |
| 5 | **lay** | infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lie** | infinitive | Queen *not said here* | the dead |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dead=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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