The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 42

And when at last he sank, she also grew weary, and fell asleep on the edge of the pool.

Who acts: sun, strength · What happens: sink, grow, fall · To what, where: last, edge

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 (sun, strength), 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	_	10 grew	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sank	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sank	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sank	nsubj
6	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sank	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grew	nsubj
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 grew	advmod
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	conj
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fell	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 edge	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 edge	det
18	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 pool	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pool	det
21	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 edge	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sink	past	sun	last		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	grow	past	strength		weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	strength not said here	the edge of the pool	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on edge=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: «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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 42