Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 11
The sunlight drowsed there as it did in front, a peaceful flooding of living gold.
Who acts: sunlight · What happens: drowse, do, flood · To what, where: front, living gold
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunlight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sunlight | det |
| 2 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drowsed | nsubj |
| 3 | drowsed | drowse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drowsed | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 did | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drowsed | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flooding | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flooding | det |
| 12 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flooding | amod |
| 13 | flooding | flooding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 front | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 15 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gold | amod |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flooding | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drowsed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drowse | past | the sunlight | there | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past | sunlight | front and a peaceful flooding of living gold | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | flood | living gold | nom flooding «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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