The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 43
Then a cloud came over her face, and she flung away from him in disdain, and stood pouting like a child.
Who acts: cloud · What happens: come, fling away, stand, pout · To what, where: face, disdain
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud), 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 | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloud | det |
| 3 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flung | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flung | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flung | nsubj |
| 11 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 flung | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flung | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 disdain | case |
| 16 | disdain | disdain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flung | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 20 | pouting | pout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 stood | xcomp |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 child | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 child | det |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pouting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a cloud | cloud's face | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over face=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fling away | past | cloud | disdain | from Shrí; away property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in disdain=Destination | |||
| 3 | stand | past | a cloud not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | pout | gerund | a cloud not said here | like a child | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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