Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 18

When Fiachna Duv heard that Mongan, who was affianced to his daughter Duv Laca, had disappeared, he considered that his compact of peace was at an end, and one day he came by surprise and attacked the palace.

Who acts: Fiachna, Mongan, compact · What happens: hear, affiance, disappear, consider, be, come · To what, where: Mongan, end, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiachna, Mongan, compact), 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	4 heard	advmod
2	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
3	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fiachna	flat
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 considered	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 disappeared	mark
6	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 disappeared	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 affianced	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 affianced	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 affianced	aux:pass
10	affianced	affiance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Mongan	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 daughter	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 affianced	obl
14	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 daughter	appos
15	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Duv	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Mongan	punct
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 disappeared	aux
18	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 heard	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 considered	nsubj
21	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 end	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 compact	nmod:poss
24	compact	compact	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 end	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 peace	case
26	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 compact	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 end	cop
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 end	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 end	det
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 considered	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 came	cc
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 day	nummod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl:unmarked
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 considered	conj
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 surprise	case
38	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 attacked	cc
40	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 came	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 palace	det
42	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 attacked	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Fiachna				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	affiance	past · passive		Mongan		to Mongan's daughter	tree rules
3	disappear	past · perfect	Mongan				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	consider	past	Mongan				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Mongan's compact of peace		at a end		tree rules
6	come	past	Mongan		day	by surprise	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by surprise=Location
7	attack	past	Mongan not said here	the palace			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=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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