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title: The sunlight drowsed there as it did in front, a peaceful flooding o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sunlight drowsed there as it did in front, a peaceful flooding of living gold. Who acts: sunlight. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 11

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The sunlight drowsed there as it did in front, a peaceful flooding of living gold.

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**Who acts:** sunlight · **What happens:** drowse, do, flood · **To what, where:** front, living gold

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:75:11
# text = The sunlight drowsed there as it did in front, a peaceful flooding of living gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drowsed	drowse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	flooding	flooding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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