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title: Then, observing the stricken countenances about him, and the faces o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, observing the stricken countenances about him, and the faces of men and women hewn thin by hunger, his resolution melted away, and he said: Who acts: resolution, Segda. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 17

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Then, observing the stricken countenances about him, and the faces of men and women hewn thin by hunger, his resolution melted away, and he said:

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**Who acts:** resolution, Segda · **What happens:** observe, melt away, say, resolve · **To what, where:** stricken countenances, hewn thin hunger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (resolution, Segda), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:68:17
# text = Then, observing the stricken countenances about him, and the faces of men and women hewn thin by hunger, his resolution melted away, and he said:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	observing	observe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	countenances	countenance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	hewn	hewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	melted	melt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | gerund |  | the stricken countenances |  |  | then | about Segda; the faces of men and women and hewn thin hunger *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent countenance=Topic |
| 2 | **melt away** | past | Segda's resolution | hewn thin hunger *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hunger=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Segda |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **resolve** |  | Segda |  |  |  |  |  | nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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