--- title: And as he gazed, he saw, how over it there crawled swiftly living th… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: And as he gazed, he saw, how over it there crawled swiftly living things with pointed tails, of the colour of sand, which entered the desert by the holes, and issued from them, and at length stood still, and became invisible, save that their tails never rested, and their bright eyes stood out of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/100/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/) / [A Sleep and a Dream., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/) / 100 # The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 100 And as he gazed, he saw, how over it there crawled swiftly living things with pointed tails, of the colour of sand, which entered the desert by the holes, and issued from them, and at length stood still, and became invisible, save that their tails never rested, and their bright eyes stood out of the sand to watch. **Who acts:** surface, quarter, colour, tails, bright eyes · **What happens:** gaze, see, crawl, point, enter, issue · **To what, where:** living things, desert, length, sand This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surface, quarter, colour, tails), 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:pg68641:6:101 # text = And as he gazed, he saw, how over it there crawled swiftly living things with pointed tails, of the colour of sand, which entered the desert by the holes, and issued from them, and at length stood still, and became invisible, save that their tails never rested, and their bright eyes stood out of the sand to watch. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 10 over over SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 issued issue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 43 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 44 still still ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 48 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 xcomp _ _ 51 that that SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 52 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nsubj _ _ 54 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 55 advmod _ _ 55 rested rest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 58 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 59 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 nsubj _ _ 61 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 62 out out ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 66 to to PART TO _ 67 mark _ _ 67 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 61 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gaze** | past | surface | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | past | surface | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **crawl** | past | quarter | living things | | there | | with pointed tails; the colour of sand *parataxis* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location thing=Theme | | 4 | **point** | participle | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **enter** | past | the colour of sand | the desert | | | | by the holes | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme desert=Destination | | 6 | **issue** | participle | surface *not said here* | | | | | from holes *= hole* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **stand** | past | surface *not said here* | | | length | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location | | 8 | **become** | past | surface *not said here* | | | | | invisible *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **save** | infinitive | surface *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **not** **rest** | past | holes's tails | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **stand out** | past | holes's bright eyes | the sand | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sand=Stimulus | | 12 | **watch** | to-infinitive | holes's bright eyes *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | 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 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/101/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/)