Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 3

For men will walk soberly in the evening, however they go in the day, and dogs will take the mood from their masters.

Who acts: men, dogs · What happens: walk, go, take · To what, where: mood, masters

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, dogs), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 men	case
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walk	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	soberly	soberly	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 evening	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evening	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
10	however	however	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 take	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mood	det
22	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 masters	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 masters	nmod:poss
25	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 take	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	future	men			evening	soberly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	present	men = man			day	however property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	future	dogs	the mood	dogs's masters			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent mood=Theme from master=Initial_Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/3/