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title: And suddenly those lashes rose like a curtain, and there came from b… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And suddenly those lashes rose like a curtain, and there came from beneath them a flood of blue colour, which pervaded the room like the odour of camphor and sandal-wood made visible to the eye, and overcame the senses of all that stood by, till they were within a little of swooning away. Who acts: 
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 6

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And suddenly those lashes rose like a curtain, and there came from beneath them a flood of blue colour, which pervaded the room like the odour of camphor and sandal-wood made visible to the eye, and overcame the senses of all that stood by, till they were within a little of swooning away.

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**Who acts:** lashes, blue colour, senses · **What happens:** rise, come, pervade, make, overcome, stand by · **To what, where:** flood, room, sandal wood, senses

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lashes, blue colour, senses), 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:pg68641:3:6
# text = And suddenly those lashes rose like a curtain, and there came from beneath them a flood of blue colour, which pervaded the room like the odour of camphor and sandal-wood made visible to the eye, and overcame the senses of all that stood by, till they were within a little of swooning away.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lashes	lash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pervaded	pervade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	odour	odour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	sandal	sandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	overcame	overcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	nmod	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
53	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
54	within	within	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
57	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
58	swooning	swoon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
59	away	away	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | that lashes |  |  |  |  | like a curtain; suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | that lashes *not said here* | a flood of blue colour |  | there |  | from lashes *= lash* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **pervade** | past | blue colour | the room |  |  |  | like the odour of camphor and sandal wood | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | sandal wood *not said here* |  |  |  | visible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **overcome** | past | that lashes *not said here* | the senses of all |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sens=Theme |
| 6 | **stand by** | past | the senses of all |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | lashes *= lash* |  |  |  |  | little *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **swoon away** | gerund | lashes *= lash* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **flood** |  | blue colour |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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