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title: Soon, face to face Fiacre and Illan stood: At last the royal youth,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon, face to face Fiacre and Illan stood: At last the royal youth, ’neath Illan’s sword Sank to one knee: at once in fury roared-- Who acts: face, Fiacre. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 8

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Soon, face to face Fiacre and Illan stood: At last the royal youth, ’neath Illan’s sword Sank to one knee: at once in fury roared--

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**Who acts:** face, Fiacre · **What happens:** face, stand, roar · **To what, where:** last royal youth, fury

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, Fiacre), 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:pg78491:7:8
# text = Soon, face to face Fiacre and Illan stood: At last the royal youth, ’neath Illan’s sword Sank to one knee: at once in fury roared--
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
6	Fiacre	Fiacre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Illan	Illan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
11	At	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	neath	neath	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	Illan	Illan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	_
22	Sank	Sank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	roared	roar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | infinitive | face |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Fiacre and Illan |  |  | the last royal youth |  | neath Sank  Illan's sword; to one knee; once *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at youth=Location |
| 3 | **roar** | participle |  | fury *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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