More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 54

"I was hunting one day, and as I rode widershins round yon hill, a deep drowsiness fell upon me, and when I awoke, behold!

Who acts: Burd Janet, deep drowsiness · What happens: hunt, ride, fall, awake · To what, where: widershins, yon hill

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burd Janet, deep drowsiness), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hunting	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hunting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunting	aux
4	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunting	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fell	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 rode	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 rode	nsubj
11	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fell	advcl
12	widershins	widershin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rode	obj
13	round	round	ADP	_	15 hill	case
14	yon	yon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hill	compound
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 widershins	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rode	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 drowsiness	det
18	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 drowsiness	amod
19	drowsiness	drowsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	nsubj
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunting	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 fell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 awoke	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 awoke	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 awoke	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 awoke	nsubj
27	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunting	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 behold	punct
29	behold	behold	INTJ	_	27 awoke	discourse
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hunting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt in a quote	past · progressive	Burd Janet = janet			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ride in a quote	past	Burd Janet = janet	widershins	yon hill			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent widershin=Theme round hill=Trajectory
3	fall in a quote	past	a deep drowsiness				upon Burd Janet = janet	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon i=Location
4	awake in a quote	past	Burd Janet = janet					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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