The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 34
And she looked into its mirror, and saw herself, slender and emaciated as the old moon, but pale and colourless as that moon at mid-day[1].
Who acts: moonstone · What happens: look, see, emaciate · To what, where: moonstone
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 (moonstone), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 mirror | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mirror | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slender | punct |
| 12 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 emaciated | cc |
| 14 | emaciated | emaciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 slender | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 moon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moon | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 moon | amod |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 emaciated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pale | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 pale | cc |
| 21 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 colourless | cc |
| 23 | colourless | colourless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pale | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 moon | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 moon | det |
| 26 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 mid-day | case |
| 28 | mid-day | mid-day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 29 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 30 1 | punct |
| 30 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 mid-day | flat |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 30 1 | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | moonstone | as that moon; at mid-day; into pool's mirror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into mirror=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | moonstone not said here | moonstone | slender property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | emaciate | participle | moonstone not said here | as the old moon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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