---
title: Three days had passed: Then by the tower of Daré stood Mac Roth And… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Three days had passed: Then by the tower of Daré stood Mac Roth And blew his horn; and Daré’s sons with speed Flung the gate wide. Who acts: Daré sons. 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 an
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/41/)

<!-- 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/) / 41

# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 41

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three days had passed: Then by the tower of Daré stood Mac Roth And blew his horn; and Daré’s sons with speed Flung the gate wide.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Daré sons · **What happens:** pass, stand, blow, fling · **To what, where:** Three days, Mac, horn, gate

<!-- .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 (Daré sons), 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:pg78491:11:43
# text = Three days had passed: Then by the tower of Daré stood Mac Roth And blew his horn; and Daré’s sons with speed Flung the gate wide.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Daré	Daré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Roth	Roth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Daré	Daré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	Flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | Three days |  |  |  | Daré sons with speed *parataxis* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | Mac |  |  | then | by the tower of Daré | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mac=Theme by tower=Destination |
| 3 | **blow** | past |  | Daré's horn |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 4 | **fling** | participle | Daré sons with speed *not said here* | the gate |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/40/)
- next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/42/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)