Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 3

When Segda heard this he was astonished and defiant; then, seeing that he was alone and without prospect of succour, he grew downcast and was in great fear for his life.

Who acts: Segda · What happens: hear, be, see, grow, prospect · To what, where: this, great fear, succour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	Segda	Segda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grew	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 astonished	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 astonished	cop
7	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 defiant	cc
9	defiant	defiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 astonished	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 heard	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seeing	punct
13	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 alone	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 alone	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 alone	cop
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 seeing	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 alone	cc
19	without	without	ADP	_	20 prospect	case
20	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seeing	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 succour	case
22	succour	succour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prospect	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grew	nsubj
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	downcast	downcast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grew	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fear	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fear	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 fear	case
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fear	amod
31	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 life	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 life	nmod:poss
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fear	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Segda	this		then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is	past	Segda				astonished property	tree rules
3	be		Segda not said here					tree rules
4	see	gerund	Segda not said here				without prospect of succour	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	Segda				alone property	tree rules
6	grow	past	Segda				downcast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	Segda not said here		great fear		for Segda's life	tree rules
8	prospect			succour				nom prospect «state transitive»: of=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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