--- title: When Fiachna Duv heard that Mongan, who was affianced to his daughte… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Ch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/79/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter VIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/79/) / 18 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:79:18 # text = 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. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 Fiachna Fiachna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Duv Duv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 6 Mongan Mongan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 affianced affiance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 Duv Duv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 15 Laca Laca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 disappeared disappear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 compact compact NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 attacked attack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/79/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/79/19/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/79/)