Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 30

The man was faint from hunger and wandering, and benumbed with cold, and a deep sleep fell upon him.

Who acts: man, deep sleep · What happens: be, wonder, benumb, fall · To what, where: hunger

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 (man, deep sleep), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faint	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 faint	cop
4	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 hunger	case
6	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faint	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wandering	cc
8	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 faint	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 benumbed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 benumbed	cc
11	benumbed	benumb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 faint	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 cold	case
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 benumbed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sleep	det
17	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sleep	amod
18	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 faint	advcl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fell	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 faint	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man	hunger	faint property	tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the man not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	benumb	participle	the man not said here		with cold	tree rules
4	fall	past	a deep sleep		upon man	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location

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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