--- title: Anon she marked In all who met her, change inexplicable, Strange eye… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Anon she marked In all who met her, change inexplicable, Strange eyes, strange faces, strange embarrassed ways: Sadly compassionate that change in some: In others questioning glance and meaning smile Hinted at things that through her flaming heart Passed like a sword of ice. Who acts: Anon, that, ot --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/145/) [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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/) / 145 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 145 Anon she marked In all who met her, change inexplicable, Strange eyes, strange faces, strange embarrassed ways: Sadly compassionate that change in some: In others questioning glance and meaning smile Hinted at things that through her flaming heart Passed like a sword of ice. **Who acts:** Anon, that, others · **What happens:** mark, meet, change, question, hint, pass · **To what, where:** all, others, anon, inexplicable Strange eyes, some, glance This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anon, that, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:14:147 # text = Anon she marked In all who met her, change inexplicable, Strange eyes, strange faces, strange embarrassed ways: Sadly compassionate that change in some: In others questioning glance and meaning smile Hinted at things that through her flaming heart Passed like a sword of ice. 1 Anon Anon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 marked mark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 inexplicable inexplicable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 Strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 embarrassed embarrassed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 Sadly sadly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 compassionate compassionate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 In in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 32 questioning question VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 glance glance NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 Hinted hint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 41 through through ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 flaming flaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 45 Passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 46 like like ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mark** | past | Anon | all | | others | | anon *nsubj* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent all=Theme in other=Destination | | 2 | **meet** | past | | anon | | | | who *nsubj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | | 3 | **change** | infinitive | Anon *not said here* | inexplicable Strange eyes and strange faces and strange embarrassed ways | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 4 | **change** | present | that | | | some | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **question** *speech: other* | gerund | others *not said here* | glance and meaning smile | | | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glance=Recipient | | 6 | **hint** *speech: other* | participle | | glance and meaning smile *not said here* | | things through anon's flaming heart that | | | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **pass** | participle | | anon's flaming heart that *not said here* | | | | like a sword of ice | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/146/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/)