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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 80

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And Faythleen answered slow, ‘The hue of blood: sunset on sunset charged.’

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**Who acts:** Faythleen · **What happens:** answer, charge · **To what, where:** sunset

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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 (Faythleen), 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:pg78491:11:82
# text = And Faythleen answered slow, ‘The hue of blood: sunset on sunset charged.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Faythleen	Faythleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Faythleen |  |  |  |  | the hue of blood *parataxis*; slow *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **charge** | participle |  | sunset on sunset *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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