--- title: Fergus marked her eye That moved not from them, smiled, and made dem… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Fergus marked her eye That moved not from them, smiled, and made demand, ‘What find’st thou in our mountain ridges, Queen, That merits gaze so fixed?’ Who acts: Fergus, That, merits. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fergus, That, merits), 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:pg78491:15:96 # text = Fergus marked her eye That moved not from them, smiled, and made demand, ‘What find’st thou in our mountain ridges, Queen, That merits gaze so fixed?’ 1 Fergus Fergus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 marked mark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 6 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 demand demand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 nsubj _ _ 19 find’st find'st VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 ridges ridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 merits merit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 gaze gaze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mark** | past | Fergus | Fergus's eye | | | | made demand *obl* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Destination | | 2 | **not** **move** | past | That | | | | | from eyes *= eye* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory | | 3 | **smile** | past | That *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **find'st** | past | | thou | | our mountain ridges | | What *nsubj* | tree rules | | 6 | **gaze** | present | that merits | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fix** | participle | that merits *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/95/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/)