The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 63

And she looked at him with a jeering laugh: and instantly she sat down, and wound herself up in her long hair, and began to weep.

Who acts: elephant · What happens: look, sit down, wound up, begin, weep · To what, where: elephant, long hair

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 (elephant), 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 looked	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 laugh	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 laugh	det
8	jeering	jeering	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laugh	compound
9	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
12	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	14 sat	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wound	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wound	cc
18	wound	wound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sat	conj
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 wound	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 wound	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 hair	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hair	nmod:poss
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hair	amod
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wound	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 weep	mark
29	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	elephant			at Land; with a jeering laugh	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	sit down	past	elephant			instantly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wound up	infinitive	elephant not said here	elephant	elephant's long hair		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
4	begin	past	elephant not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	weep	to-infinitive	elephant not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 63

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 63