Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 31

When he lay down beside the green hill where Deirdre was, a troubled dream came to the man, and he thought that he enjoyed the warmth of a fairy broch, the fairies being inside playing music.

Who acts: man, troubled dream, fairies · What happens: lie down, come, think, enjoy, play · To what, where: green hill, warmth, music · Speech: someone speaks here

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, troubled dream, fairies), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 lay	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	advcl
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 hill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hill	amod
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 was	advmod
10	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 was	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hill	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dream	det
14	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dream	amod
15	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 man	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 enjoyed	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 enjoyed	nsubj
26	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thought	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 warmth	det
28	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 enjoyed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 broch	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 broch	det
31	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 broch	amod
32	broch	broch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 warmth	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 playing	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fairies	det
35	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 playing	nsubj
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 playing	aux
37	inside	inside	ADP	_	38 playing	mark
38	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 enjoyed	advcl
39	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 playing	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	man		the green hill	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside hill=Location
2	come	past	a troubled dream			to the man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location
3	think speech: other	past	man				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	enjoy	past	man	the warmth of a fairy broch			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer warmth=Stimulus
5	play	gerund · progressive	the fairies	music			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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: «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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