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title: Straight on the King Druidic insight fell; And mirrored in his mind… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Straight on the King Druidic insight fell; And mirrored in his mind as cloud in lake His daughter’s crime, distinct and visible, Before him stood. Who acts: throng, daughter. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9, with 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 21

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Straight on the King Druidic insight fell; And mirrored in his mind as cloud in lake His daughter’s crime, distinct and visible, Before him stood.

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**Who acts:** throng, daughter · **What happens:** fall, mirror, stand, mind, incriminate · **To what, where:** King Druidic insight, crime, mind

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (throng, daughter), 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:pg78491:9:21
# text = Straight on the King Druidic insight fell; And mirrored in his mind as cloud in lake His daughter’s crime, distinct and visible, Before him stood.
1	Straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Druidic	druidic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	insight	insight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	mirrored	mirror	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | the King Druidic insight |  | straight *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on insight=Location |
| 2 | **mirror** | past |  | throng's daughter's crime |  | throng's mind |  | as cloud in lake | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | throng |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mind** |  | throng |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **incriminate** |  | throng's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=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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