Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7

In the evenings, when the days grew short and the light went early, he would call for some one of these manuscripts and have it read to him by candle-light, in order that he might satisfy himself that it was as good as he had judged it to be on the previous hearing.

Who acts: days, light, store, neighbourhood · What happens: grow, go, call, have, read, satisfy · To what, where: store, order, neighbourhood, previous hearing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (days, light, store, neighbourhood), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evenings	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evenings	det
3	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 grew	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 days	det
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
14	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 went	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 call	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 call	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 call	aux
18	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grew	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 one	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 one	det
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 call	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 manuscripts	case
23	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 manuscripts	det
24	manuscripts	manuscript	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 call	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	obj
28	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 have	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 read	obl
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 light	case
32	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 light	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 candle	punct
34	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 read	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 order	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 order	case
37	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 satisfy	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 satisfy	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 satisfy	aux
41	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 order	acl
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 satisfy	obj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 good	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 good	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 good	cop
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 good	advmod
47	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 satisfy	advcl
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 judged	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 judged	nsubj:pass
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 judged	aux
51	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 good	advcl
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 judged	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	58 hearing	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 hearing	cop
55	on	on	ADP	_	58 hearing	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 hearing	det
57	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 hearing	amod
58	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 judged	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the days				evening	short property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the light					early property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	would	light					for some one of this manuscripts	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for one=Recipient
4	have	present	light not said here	store		order			tree rules
5	read	participle	store not said here		neighbourhood			by candle light	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	satisfy	might	neighbourhood	neighbourhood					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
7	is	past	store					good property	tree rules
8	judge	past · perfect · passive		neighbourhood					tree rules
9	is	to-infinitive				the previous hearing			tree rules

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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