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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 90

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Many a mirthful chance Provoked their laughter: loudest laughed the queen; But when she spake she waited not reply.

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**Who acts:** Many, loudest, chance · **What happens:** provoke, laugh, speak, not wait, reply · **To what, where:** laughter, queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many, loudest, chance), 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:pg78491:15:92
# text = Many a mirthful chance Provoked their laughter: loudest laughed the queen; But when she spake she waited not reply.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mirthful	mirthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	Provoked	provoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj	_	_
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spake	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
21	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provoke** | past | Many | warriors's laughter |  |  |  | a mirthful chance *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus laughter=Experiencer |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | loudest | the queen |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | chance |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **wait** | past | chance |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | infinitive | chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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