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title: In the evenings, when the days grew short and the light went early,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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, nei
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7

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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.

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**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

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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 (days, light, store, neighbourhood), 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:pg2892:72:7
# text = 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.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evenings	evening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	manuscripts	manuscript	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
42	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obj	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	as	as	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advcl	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	advcl	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	cop	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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