Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 29

A drowsiness came upon the man as he wearily wandered over the hills, and he lay down by the side of the beautiful green knoll in which Deirdre lived, and he slept.

Who acts: drowsiness, man, Deirdre · What happens: come, wander, lie down, live, sleep · To what, where: hills, beautiful green knoll

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drowsiness, man, Deirdre), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drowsiness	det
2	drowsiness	drowsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 wandered	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wandered	nsubj
9	wearily	wearily	ADV	_	10 wandered	advmod
10	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 hills	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hills	det
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wandered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 lay	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 side	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 side	det
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 knoll	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 knoll	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 knoll	amod
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 knoll	amod
26	knoll	knoll	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 side	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 lived	obl
29	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 lived	nsubj
30	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 knoll	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 slept	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 slept	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 slept	nsubj
34	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lay	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a drowsiness		upon the man	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Location
2	wander	past	man	the hills	wearily property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory
3	lie down	past	man		by the side of the beautiful green knoll	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
4	live	past	Deirdre	the beautiful green knoll		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
5	sleep	past	man			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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