The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 45

And it fell, like midnight, about those stars her eyes, and wrapped her all over like a veil, and rolled down round her feet and along the ground, like a black serpent.

Who acts: knot · What happens: fall, wrap, roll down · To what, where: cloud, feet

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 (knot), 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	_	3 fell	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 midnight	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stars	punct
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 stars	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 stars	det
10	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	obl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stars	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wrapped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wrapped	cc
15	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wrapped	obj
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 over	advmod
18	over	over	ADV	_	15 wrapped	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 veil	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 veil	det
21	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wrapped	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rolled	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rolled	cc
24	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fell	parataxis
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 rolled	compound:prt
26	round	round	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feet	nmod:poss
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rolled	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ground	cc
30	along	along	ADP	_	32 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feet	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 serpent	punct
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 serpent	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 serpent	det
36	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 serpent	amod
37	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rolled	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	knot			midnight	about that stars and cloud's eyes	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about star=Location
2	wrap	past	knot not said here	cloud			like a veil; over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination
3	roll down	participle			cloud's feet and the ground		like a black serpent	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round foot=Trajectory

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 4, sentence 45

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 45