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title: Upon her casque And spear beyond it pointing glared the moon, And on… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon her casque And spear beyond it pointing glared the moon, And on a face like hers that froze of old The gazers into stone. Who acts: spear, that. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 77

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Upon her casque And spear beyond it pointing glared the moon, And on a face like hers that froze of old The gazers into stone.

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**Who acts:** spear, that · **What happens:** point, glare, freeze · **To what, where:** moon, face

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spear, that), 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:pg78491:15:79
# text = Upon her casque And spear beyond it pointing glared the moon, And on a face like hers that froze of old The gazers into stone.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	casque	casque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
9	glared	glare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hers	her	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gazers	gazer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | gerund | spear |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **glare** | past |  | the moon |  |  |  | upon goddess's casque and spear | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moon=Theme |
| 3 | **freeze** | past | that |  |  | a face like hers |  | of the old gazers; into stone | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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