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title: Men who had wives of their own grew moody and downcast because they… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 16

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg2892:28:16
# text = 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.
1	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	moody	moody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	downcast	downcast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bachelors	bachelor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	27	obl	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	fixed	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	truculent	truculent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	bloodshot	bloodshot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Tuiren	Tuiren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux	_	_
49	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
52	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	beamed	beam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	conj	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	_
55	by	by	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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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