The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 154

She cast it down; She cried; ‘Since first I sat, a queen new-crowned, Never such ignominy, or spleen of scorn Hath mocked my greatness!’

Who acts: rock, I · What happens: cast down, cry, sit, crown, mock · To what, where: goblet, queen, greatness

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cast	nsubj
2	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cast	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 cast	compound:prt
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
6	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cast	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
10	Since	since	ADP	_	11 first	case
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 sat	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 queen	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 queen	det
16	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obj
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crowned	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 new	punct
19	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 queen	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ignominy	punct
21	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 such	advmod
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ignominy	amod
23	ignominy	ignominy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 queen	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spleen	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 spleen	cc
26	spleen	spleen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 scorn	case
28	scorn	scorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spleen	nmod
29	Hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 mocked	aux:pass
30	mocked	mock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sat	parataxis
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 greatness	nmod:poss
32	greatness	greatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mocked	obj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 cast	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cast down	past	rock	goblet		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2	cry speech: express	past	rock			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	I	a queen and such ignominy	spleen of scorn obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme
4	crown	participle		a queen and such ignominy not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	mock	present · passive		my greatness		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: greatness=Theme

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.

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 154

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 154