--- title: And the old King looked at her with pride and wonder and delight: an… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: And the old King looked at her with pride and wonder and delight: and he laughed to himself, and said: Wonderful is the cunning of the Creator, and incomprehensible the mystery of a woman's beauty! Who acts: old King, King. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old King, King), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg68641:3:34 # text = And the old King looked at her with pride and wonder and delight: and he laughed to himself, and said: Wonderful is the cunning of the Creator, and incomprehensible the mystery of a woman's beauty! 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 Wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 cunning cunning NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Creator creator NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 incomprehensible incomprehensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 mystery mystery NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the old King | | | | | at Shrí; with pride and wonder and delight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 2 | **laugh** | past | King | | King | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | | the Wonderful cunning | | | | of the Creator; the incomprehensible mystery of a woman's beauty *appos* | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/35/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/3/)