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title: An instant back she flashed her magic eyes And from her laughing lip… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: An instant back she flashed her magic eyes And from her laughing lip the answer leaped, ‘Where stags are none, the doe must monarchise!’ Who acts: instant back, stags, doe. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, with it
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 21

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An instant back she flashed her magic eyes And from her laughing lip the answer leaped, ‘Where stags are none, the doe must monarchise!’

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**Who acts:** instant back, stags, doe · **What happens:** flash, laugh, leap, be, monarchise · **To what, where:** magic eyes, answer, laughing lip, none

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instant back, stags, doe), 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:pg78491:4:21
# text = An instant back she flashed her magic eyes And from her laughing lip the answer leaped, ‘Where stags are none, the doe must monarchise!’
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	conj	_	_
20	stags	stag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	monarchise	monarchise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | past | a instant back | back's magic eyes |  |  |  | back *nsubj* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leap** | participle · passive |  | the answer |  | back's laughing lip |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** | present | stags | none |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **monarchise** | must | the doe |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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