The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 87
So she laughed and mocked him, while he stood before her as it were in a swoon, hearing only the music of her voice, and quailing like a coward before the fire in her scornful eyes.
Who acts: lady, Hark, end · What happens: laugh, mock, stand, be, quail · To what, where: Hark, music, swoon, scornful eyes
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Hark, end), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 laughed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mocked | cc |
| 5 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mocked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 stood | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 swoon | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 swoon | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 swoon | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 swoon | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 swoon | det |
| 18 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hearing | punct |
| 20 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swoon | conj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 music | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 music | det |
| 23 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 voice | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 voice | nmod:poss |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 music | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 quailing | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 quailing | cc |
| 29 | quailing | quail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 stood | advcl |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 coward | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 coward | det |
| 32 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 quailing | obl |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 fire | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fire | det |
| 35 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 quailing | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | scornful | scornful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 eyes | amod |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 quailing | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | lady | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mock | past | lady not said here | Hark | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Hark | the music of lady's voice | before lady | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | end | a swoon and hearing | hearing conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | quail | gerund | Hark not said here | lady's scornful eyes | before the fire | like a coward | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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