The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 21
And her glances fell on those snowy flowers, and turned their tint to blue, for her eyes were lowered: and she was resting her chin on one hand as she lay, and with the other dropping one by one into the water the petals of a lotus red as blood.
Who acts: glances, woman, other · What happens: fall, turn, lower, rest, lie, drop · To what, where: snowy flowers, tint, blue, eyes, chin, one hand
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glances, woman, other), 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 | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 glances | nmod:poss |
| 3 | glances | glance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 flowers | case |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 flowers | det |
| 7 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flowers | amod |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tint | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tint | tint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 blue | case |
| 15 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 turned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lowered | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 lowered | mark |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lowered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lowered | aux:pass |
| 21 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 turned | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 resting | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 resting | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 resting | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 resting | aux |
| 26 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fell | advcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 chin | nmod:poss |
| 28 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 resting | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 hand | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 hand | nummod |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 resting | obl |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 lay | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lay | nsubj |
| 34 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 resting | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 dropping | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 dropping | cc |
| 37 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 40 dropping | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 other | det |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 dropping | nsubj |
| 40 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fell | advcl |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 dropping | obj |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 one | case |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 one | nmod |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 water | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 water | det |
| 46 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dropping | obl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 petals | det |
| 48 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 dropping | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 lotus | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 lotus | det |
| 51 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 petals | nmod |
| 52 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 lotus | amod |
| 53 | as | as | ADP | _ | 54 blood | case |
| 54 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 red | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | woman's glances | that snowy flowers | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on flower=Location | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | woman's glances not said here | glances's tint | blue | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tint=Theme to blue=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | lower | past · passive | woman's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rest | past · progressive | woman | woman's chin | one hand | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent chin=Theme on hand=Location | |||
| 5 | lie | past | woman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | drop | gerund | the other | one | the water | by one; the petals of a lotus obj | tree rules | ||
| 7 | glance | woman | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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