The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 121
Then horror came on that old King, and illusion fell suddenly from his eyes, and the desire of life was destroyed in him at its root.
Who acts: horror, illusion · What happens: come, fall, destroy, desire · To what, where: eyes, desire, root, life
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horror, illusion), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 King | nsubj |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 King | amod |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 10 | illusion | illusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 fell | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 destroyed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 destroyed | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 desire | det |
| 19 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 desire | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 23 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 destroyed | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 root | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 root | nmod:poss |
| 28 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 destroyed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | horror | then | on old King that | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on king=Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past | illusion | king's eyes | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | destroy | past · passive | the desire of life | desire's root | in king | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | desire | life | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=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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