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title: And she looked into its mirror, and saw herself, slender and emaciat… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And she looked into its mirror, and saw herself, slender and emaciated as the old moon, but pale and colourless as that moon at mid-day[1]. Who acts: moonstone. 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 pragmat
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 34

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And she looked into its mirror, and saw herself, slender and emaciated as the old moon, but pale and colourless as that moon at mid-day\[1\].

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**Who acts:** moonstone · **What happens:** look, see, emaciate · **To what, where:** moonstone

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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 (moonstone), 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:pg68641:10:34
# text = And she looked into its mirror, and saw herself, slender and emaciated as the old moon, but pale and colourless as that moon at mid-day[1].
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	emaciated	emaciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	colourless	colourless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | moonstone |  |  |  |  | as that moon; at mid-day; into pool's mirror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into mirror=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | moonstone *not said here* | moonstone |  |  |  | slender *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus |
| 3 | **emaciate** | participle | moonstone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the old moon | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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