Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 8

His terror on hearing this unexpected news was so great that he meditated immediate flight from Tara; but when a thing has been uttered once it is easier said the second time and on the third repetition it is patiently listened to.

Who acts: terror, desire, second time · What happens: hear, be, meditate, utter, say, listen · To what, where: unexpected news, immediate flight, Tara, thing, terror · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror, desire, second time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 terror	nmod:poss
2	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 great	nsubj
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 hearing	mark
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 terror	acl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 news	det
6	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 news	amod
7	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearing	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 great	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 great	advmod
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 meditated	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 meditated	nsubj
13	meditated	meditate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 great	advcl
14	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flight	amod
15	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meditated	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 Tara	case
17	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 meditated	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 uttered	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 uttered	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 uttered	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thing	det
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 uttered	nsubj:pass
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 uttered	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 uttered	aux:pass
25	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 great	conj
26	once	once	SCONJ	_	30 said	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 easier	expl
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 easier	cop
29	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 said	ccomp
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 uttered	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obl:unmarked
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 repetition	cc
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 repetition	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 repetition	det
37	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 repetition	amod
38	repetition	repetition	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 time	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 listened	nsubj:pass
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 listened	aux:pass
41	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	42 listened	advmod
42	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 time	acl:relcl
43	to	to	ADP	_	42 listened	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	desire's terror not said here	this unexpected news				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus
2	is	past	desire's terror				great property	tree rules
3	meditate	past	desire	immediate flight	Tara			tree rules
4	utter speech: other	present · perfect · passive		a thing				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	is	present					easy property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past				time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	listen	present · passive	the second time and the third repetition not said here	terror			patiently property	tree rules

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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