The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 5
And the nurses and waiting women were astonished, for wonderful to say! the lids of the child's eyes were fringed with long black lashes, looking like rain-clouds hanging low to hide the rising moon.
Who acts: nurses, rain clouds · What happens: wait, be, say, fringe, look, hang · To what, where: women, lids, rising moon · 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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurses, rain clouds), 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 | _ | 8 astonished | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nurses | det |
| 3 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 astonished | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 waiting | cc |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 nurses | conj |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waiting | obj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 astonished | cop |
| 8 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wonderful | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 wonderful | case |
| 11 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 astonished | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wonderful | csubj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 fringed | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lids | det |
| 16 | lids | lid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fringed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 child | case |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fringed | obl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fringed | aux:pass |
| 23 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 say | ccomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 lashes | case |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lashes | amod |
| 26 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lashes | amod |
| 27 | lashes | lash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fringed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 looking | punct |
| 29 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 fringed | advcl |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 clouds | case |
| 31 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 clouds | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 rain | punct |
| 33 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 looking | obl |
| 34 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 clouds | acl |
| 35 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 hanging | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 hide | mark |
| 37 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hanging | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 moon | det |
| 39 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 moon | compound |
| 40 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hide | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | the nurses not said here | women | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the nurses | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the nurses not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | fringe | past · passive | the lids | of the child's eyes; with long black lashes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | look | gerund | like rain clouds | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | hang | gerund | rain clouds not said here | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | hide | to-infinitive | rain clouds not said here | the rising moon | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=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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