--- title: So spake she; and the queen obeyed her hest: She flung that rumour f… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: So spake she; and the queen obeyed her hest: She flung that rumour forth; and all who heard, Heart-stricken now, believed it. Who acts: you, queen. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/156/) [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/) / 156 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 156 So spake she; and the queen obeyed her hest: She flung that rumour forth; and all who heard, Heart-stricken now, believed it. **Who acts:** you, queen · **What happens:** speak, obey, fling, hear, believe · **To what, where:** Emania, hest, rumour · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, queen), 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:pg78491:14:158 # text = So spake she; and the queen obeyed her hest: She flung that rumour forth; and all who heard, Heart-stricken now, believed it. 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 spake speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 obeyed obey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 hest hest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 rumour rumour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 forth forth ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 Heart Heart PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 stricken stricken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 26 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | Emania | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **obey** | past | the queen | Emania's hest | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hest=Theme | | 3 | **fling** | past | queen | rumour | | | | forth *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumour=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | past | | | | | | who *nsubj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **believe** | past | | rumour | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/155/) - next →: [sentence 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/157/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/)