--- title: The maiden paused; she mused; again she spake, Fixing on Levarcam th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: The maiden paused; she mused; again she spake, Fixing on Levarcam those marvellous eyes; ‘Three be Love’s colours--white, and red, and black: White, for the sake of Love’s white sanctities; And red, for Love must war on many a foe; And black, since Love, though crowned, must end in woe.’ Who acts: m --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/82/) [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/) / 82 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 82 The maiden paused; she mused; again she spake, Fixing on Levarcam those marvellous eyes; ‘Three be Love’s colours--white, and red, and black: White, for the sake of Love’s white sanctities; And red, for Love must war on many a foe; And black, since Love, though crowned, must end in woe.’ **Who acts:** maiden, Deirdré · **What happens:** pause, muse, fix, be, crown, end · **To what, where:** she spake, marvellous eyes, Levarcam, Three colours, woe 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 (maiden, Deirdré), 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:pg78491:3:82 # text = The maiden paused; she mused; again she spake, Fixing on Levarcam those marvellous eyes; ‘Three be Love’s colours--white, and red, and black: White, for the sake of Love’s white sanctities; And red, for Love must war on many a foe; And black, since Love, though crowned, must end in woe.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 paused pause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 mused muse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 compound _ _ 10 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Fixing fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Levarcam Levarcam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 16 marvellous marvellous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 22 Love Love PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 33 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 34 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 Love Love PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’s 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 sanctities sanctity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 45 And and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 for for ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 Love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 50 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 52 on on ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 foe foe NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ; ; PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 57 And and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 since since ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 Love Love PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 63 though though SCONJ IN _ 64 mark _ _ 64 crowned crown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 66 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 67 aux _ _ 67 end end VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 64 parataxis _ _ 68 in in ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 69 woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pause** | past | the maiden | | | | | for the sake of Love's white sanctities | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **muse** | past | Deirdré | she spake | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fix** | gerund | Deirdré *not said here* | that marvellous eyes | | Levarcam | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | infinitive | | Love's Three colours | | | | Love *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **crown** | participle | the maiden *not said here* | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **end** | must | | | | woe | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/81/) - next →: [Opening, part 4, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/)