Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 25
But Segda, observing that the guest’s countenance was discomposed, broke in:
Who acts: Segda · What happens: observe, discompose, break in · To what, where: countenance
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Segda), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 broke | cc |
| 2 | Segda | Segda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 observing | punct |
| 4 | observing | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Segda | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 discomposed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guest | det |
| 7 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 guest | case |
| 9 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 discomposed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 discomposed | aux:pass |
| 11 | discomposed | discompose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 observing | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Segda | punct |
| 13 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 broke | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | gerund | Segda not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | discompose | past · passive | the guest's countenance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | break in | past | Segda | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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