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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 1

So she sat with her eyes closed; fearing to open them, lest she should see she knew not what among the shadows of the trees.

Who acts: she · What happens: sit, close, fear, open, see, not know · To what, where: eyes, trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

advmodnsubjcasenmod:possoblaclpunctadvclmarkxcompobjpunctmarknsubjauxconjnsubjccompadvmodccompcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctrootSoADVshePRONsatVERBwithADPherPRONeyesNOUNclosedVERB;PUNCTfearingVERBtoPARTopenVERBthemPRON,PUNCTlestSCONJshePRONshouldAUXseeVERBshePRONknewVERBnotPARTwhatPRONamongADPtheDETshadowsNOUNofADPtheDETtreesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 satadvmod
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 satnsubj
3satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4withwithADP_6 eyescase
5herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 eyesnmod:poss
6eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur3 satobl
7closedcloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 eyesacl
8;;PUNCT_9 fearingpunct
9fearingfearVERBVerbForm=Ger3 satadvcl
10totoPART_11 openmark
11openopenVERBVerbForm=Inf9 fearingxcomp
12themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 openobj
13,,PUNCT_17 seepunct
14lestlestSCONJ_17 seemark
15sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 seensubj
16shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 seeaux
17seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf11 openconj
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 knewnsubj
19knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 seeccomp
20notnotPARTPolarity=Neg19 knewadvmod
21whatwhatPRONPronType=Int19 knewccomp
22amongamongADP_24 shadowscase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 shadowsdet
24shadowsshadowNOUNNumber=Plur21 whatnmod
25ofofADP_27 treescase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 treesdet
27treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur24 shadowsnmod
28..PUNCT_3 satpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sitpastshewith her eyesvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2closeparticipleher eyes not said herevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3feargerundshe not said herevn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4opento-infinitiveshe not said hereeyes = eyevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
5seeshouldshevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6not knowpastshewhat among the shadows of the trees ccompvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7shadowthe treesnom shadow «state 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: «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (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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