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title: Their chess-board next they ranged with pawn and queen; And Deirdré… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their chess-board next they ranged with pawn and queen; And Deirdré laughed or frowned the moves between. Who acts: chess board, Deirdré. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 54

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Their chess-board next they ranged with pawn and queen; And Deirdré laughed or frowned the moves between.

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**Who acts:** chess board, Deirdré · **What happens:** range, laugh, 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chess board, Deirdré), 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:pg78491:6:55
# text = Their chess-board next they ranged with pawn and queen; And Deirdré laughed or frowned the moves between.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	next	next	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ranged	range	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pawn	pawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	frowned	frown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	moves	move	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **range** | past | warriors's chess board |  |  |  |  | with pawn and queen; warriors *= warrior* *nsubj* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | Deirdré |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **frown** | past | Deirdré *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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