The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 6

And suddenly those lashes rose like a curtain, and there came from beneath them a flood of blue colour, which pervaded the room like the odour of camphor and sandal-wood made visible to the eye, and overcame the senses of all that stood by, till they were within a little of swooning away.

Who acts: lashes, blue colour, senses · What happens: rise, come, pervade, make, overcome, stand by · To what, where: flood, room, sandal wood, senses

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 (lashes, blue colour, senses), 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	_	5 rose	cc
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 rose	advmod
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 lashes	det
4	lashes	lash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rose	nsubj
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 curtain	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 curtain	det
8	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 came	expl
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 them	case
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 flood	det
17	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 colour	case
19	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 colour	amod
20	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flood	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pervaded	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 pervaded	nsubj
23	pervaded	pervade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 colour	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 room	det
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pervaded	obj
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 odour	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 odour	det
28	odour	odour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 room	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 camphor	case
30	camphor	camphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 odour	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wood	cc
32	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wood	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 sandal	punct
34	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 odour	conj
35	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 wood	acl
36	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 made	xcomp
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 eye	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 eye	det
39	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 visible	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 overcame	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 overcame	cc
42	overcame	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 senses	det
44	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 overcame	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 all	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 senses	nmod
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 stood	nsubj
48	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 senses	acl:relcl
49	by	by	ADP	_	48 stood	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 little	punct
51	till	till	SCONJ	_	56 little	mark
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 little	nsubj
53	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 little	cop
54	within	within	ADP	_	56 little	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 little	det
56	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 overcame	obl:unmarked
57	of	of	SCONJ	_	58 swooning	mark
58	swooning	swoon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 little	advcl
59	away	away	ADV	_	58 swooning	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	that lashes			like a curtain; suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	that lashes not said here	a flood of blue colour	there	from lashes = lash	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location
3	pervade	past	blue colour	the room		like the odour of camphor and sandal wood	tree rules
4	make	participle		sandal wood not said here		visible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	overcome	past	that lashes not said here	the senses of all			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sens=Theme
6	stand by	past	the senses of all				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	lashes = lash			little property	tree rules
8	swoon away	gerund	lashes = lash not said here			away property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	flood		blue colour				nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 6