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title: Then Conor frowned:--‘What night-mare loads thy breast? — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Conor frowned:--‘What night-mare loads thy breast? Who acts: Conor. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 36

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Then Conor frowned:--‘What night-mare loads thy breast?

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**Who acts:** Conor · **What happens:** frown

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conor), 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:pg78491:5:36
# text = Then Conor frowned:--‘What night-mare loads thy breast?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	frowned	frown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frown** | past | Conor |  |  |  | then | What  mare loads  thy breast *obj* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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