Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 16

Men who had wives of their own grew moody and downcast because they could not hope to marry her, while the bachelors of the Fianna stared at each other with truculent, bloodshot eyes, and then they gazed on Tuiren so gently that she may have imagined she was being beamed on by the mild eyes of the dawn.

Who acts: Men, wives, bachelors, mother, mild eyes · What happens: have, grow, not hope, marry, stare, gaze · To what, where: wives, mother

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Men, wives, bachelors, mother), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Men	acl:relcl
4	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wives	nmod
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 downcast	cc
11	downcast	downcast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moody	conj
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 hope	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hope	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hope	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hope	advmod
16	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grew	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 marry	mark
18	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hope	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 marry	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stared	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 stared	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bachelors	det
23	bachelors	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stared	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Fianna	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Fianna	det
26	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 bachelors	nmod
27	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 each	case
29	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	27 stared	obl
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 each	fixed
31	with	with	ADP	_	35 eyes	case
32	truculent	truculent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eyes	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 truculent	punct
34	bloodshot	bloodshot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eyes	amod
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stared	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 gazed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 gazed	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 gazed	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 gazed	nsubj
40	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 Tuiren	case
42	Tuiren	Tuiren	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 gazed	obl
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 gently	advmod
44	gently	gently	ADV	_	40 gazed	advmod
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 imagined	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 imagined	nsubj
47	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 imagined	aux
48	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 imagined	aux
49	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 gazed	advcl
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 beamed	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 beamed	aux:pass
52	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 beamed	aux:pass
53	beamed	beam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 imagined	conj
54	on	on	ADP	_	53 beamed	compound:prt
55	by	by	ADP	_	58 eyes	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 eyes	det
57	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 eyes	amod
58	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 beamed	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 dawn	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 dawn	det
61	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 eyes	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Men	wives of wives's own			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	grow	past	Men			moody property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not hope	could	wives = wife				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	wives = wife not said here	mother			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	stare	past	the bachelors of the Fianna			with truculent bloodshot eyes; at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
6	gaze	past	bachelors = bachelor		then	on Tuiren; gently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tuiren=Theme
7	imagine	may · perfect	mother				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	beam on	past · passive	the mild eyes of the dawn	mother			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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