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title: And then he said again: Alas! and why, O thou of the lovely eyes, do… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And then he said again: Alas! and why, O thou of the lovely eyes, dost thou shrink from me? Who acts: fear, lovely eyes. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 11

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And then he said again: Alas! and why, O thou of the lovely eyes, dost thou shrink from me?

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**Who acts:** fear, lovely eyes · **What happens:** say, do, shrink · **To what, where:** thou · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, lovely eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg68641:10:11
# text = And then he said again: Alas! and why, O thou of the lovely eyes, dost thou shrink from me?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Alas	Alas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	13	case	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obj	_	_
21	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fear |  |  |  | then; again | Alas *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the lovely eyes | thou |  |  |  | of thou | tree rules |
| 3 | **shrink** | infinitive | the lovely eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from me | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from i=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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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