The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 42

And as he wandered up and down, he came at last to a great palace, whose doors stood wide open, as much as to say: Come in.

Who acts: moon, doors · What happens: wander, come, stand, say, come in · To what, where: last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, doors), 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	_	10 came	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 wandered	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 wandered	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 down	cc
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 up	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 palace	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 palace	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 palace	amod
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
18	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	19 doors	nmod:poss
19	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 palace	acl:relcl
21	wide	wide	ADV	_	20 stood	advmod
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stood	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 much	punct
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 say	mark
27	to	to	PART	_	28 say	mark
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 much	acl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Come	punct
30	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 say	ccomp
31	in	in	ADV	_	30 Come	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	moon			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	moon	last	to a great palace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
3	stand	past	doors		open, wide property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come in	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 5, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 42