--- title: For when she heard the wintry tempests raving, Fables she told of im… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: For when she heard the wintry tempests raving, Fables she told of immemorial feuds, And warring Gods that still, for vengeance craving, Devastated some rival’s peaceful woods; And when the morning shone, serene and mild, She laughed and said, ‘These Gods are reconciled!’ Who acts: Deirdré, wintry te --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/16/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/) / 16 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 16 For when she heard the wintry tempests raving, Fables she told of immemorial feuds, And warring Gods that still, for vengeance craving, Devastated some rival’s peaceful woods; And when the morning shone, serene and mild, She laughed and said, ‘These Gods are reconciled!’ **Who acts:** Deirdré, wintry tempests, vengeance craving, morning, you · **What happens:** hear, rave, tell, war, devastate, shine · **To what, where:** wintry tempests, Fables, peaceful woods, Gods · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deirdré, wintry tempests, vengeance craving, morning), 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:pg78491:3:16 # text = For when she heard the wintry tempests raving, Fables she told of immemorial feuds, And warring Gods that still, for vengeance craving, Devastated some rival’s peaceful woods; And when the morning shone, serene and mild, She laughed and said, ‘These Gods are reconciled!’ 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 wintry wintry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 tempests tempest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 raving rave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Fables fable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 immemorial immemorial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 feuds feud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 And and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 warring war VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 19 Gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 vengeance vengeance NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 craving craving NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Devastated devastate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 rival rival NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’s 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 peaceful peaceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 And and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 serene serene VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 parataxis _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 49 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 51 det _ _ 51 Gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux:pass _ _ 53 reconciled reconcile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ! ! PUNCT . _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Deirdré | the wintry tempests | | | | Fables *obl*; warring Gods *obl*; vengeance craving *conj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tempest=Stimulus | | 2 | **rave** *speech: other* | gerund | the wintry tempests *not said here* | | | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Deirdré | Fables *not said here* | | | | of immemorial feuds | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fable=Recipient | | 4 | **war** | gerund | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **devastate** | participle | vengeance craving *not said here* | some rival's peaceful woods | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wood=Experiencer | | 6 | **shine** | past | the morning | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **serene** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **laugh** | past | Deirdré | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Deirdré *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **reconcile** | present · passive | | this Gods | | | | | tree rules | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/17/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/)