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title: And her glances fell on those snowy flowers, and turned their tint t… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And her glances fell on those snowy flowers, and turned their tint to blue, for her eyes were lowered: and she was resting her chin on one hand as she lay, and with the other dropping one by one into the water the petals of a lotus red as blood. Who acts: glances, woman, other. A sentence of «The de
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 21

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And her glances fell on those snowy flowers, and turned their tint to blue, for her eyes were lowered: and she was resting her chin on one hand as she lay, and with the other dropping one by one into the water the petals of a lotus red as blood.

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**Who acts:** glances, woman, other · **What happens:** fall, turn, lower, rest, lie, drop · **To what, where:** snowy flowers, tint, blue, eyes, chin, one hand

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glances, woman, other), 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:pg68641:2:21
# text = And her glances fell on those snowy flowers, and turned their tint to blue, for her eyes were lowered: and she was resting her chin on one hand as she lay, and with the other dropping one by one into the water the petals of a lotus red as blood.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	glances	glance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	tint	tint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	lowered	lower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	nsubj	_	_
40	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	obj	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nmod	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
53	as	as	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | woman's glances |  |  | that snowy flowers |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on flower=Location |
| 2 | **turn** | past | woman's glances *not said here* | glances's tint |  | blue |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tint=Theme to blue=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lower** | past · passive |  | woman's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **rest** | past · progressive | woman | woman's chin |  | one hand |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent chin=Theme on hand=Location |
| 5 | **lie** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **drop** | gerund | the other | one |  | the water |  | by one; the petals of a lotus *obj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **glance** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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