--- title: Beside the girl stood Levarcam; she smiled, And spake; ‘Good sooth,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Beside the girl stood Levarcam; she smiled, And spake; ‘Good sooth, your shaft hath hit its mark; Yea doubtless, you were born a prophet’s child! Who acts: girl, shaft, Good sooth. 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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 (girl, shaft, Good sooth), 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:pg78491:3:68 # text = Beside the girl stood Levarcam; she smiled, And spake; ‘Good sooth, your shaft hath hit its mark; Yea doubtless, you were born a prophet’s child! 1 Beside beside ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Levarcam Levarcam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 sooth sooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 shaft shaft NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hath have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 20 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 24 Yea yea INTJ UH _ 29 discourse _ _ 25 doubtless doubtless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 prophet prophet NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’s 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the girl | Levarcam | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer levarcam=Stimulus | | 2 | **smile** | past | girl | spake | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | your shaft | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hit** | past | Good sooth | shaft's mark | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mark=Co-Theme | | 5 | **bear** | past · passive | | you | | | | a prophet's child *obj* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary child=Patient | | 6 | **mark** | | shaft | | | | | | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/69/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/)