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title: Then the bad queen, descending, round her cast A baleful look of min… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 60

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Then the bad queen, descending, round her cast A baleful look of mingled hate and woe, And with those babes into a thicket passed, And drew a dagger from her breast; and lo!

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**Who acts:** bad queen, sun · **What happens:** descend, cast, mingle, pass, draw · **To what, where:** baleful look, babes, dagger, breast, bad queen

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bad queen, sun), 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:pg78491:8:60
# text = Then the bad queen, descending, round her cast A baleful look of mingled hate and woe, And with those babes into a thicket passed, And drew a dagger from her breast; and lo!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	baleful	baleful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | gerund | the bad queen and that babes into a thicket *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cast** | past | sun | a baleful look of mingled hate and woe |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Product |
| 3 | **mingle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **pass** | participle |  | that babes into a thicket *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **draw** | past |  | a dagger |  | sun's breast |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme from breast=Initial\_Location |

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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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