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title: And now it is well, that I am fenced by the blue eyes of Shrí like a… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And now it is well, that I am fenced by the blue eyes of Shrí like a suit of armour, otherwise the glances of this forest maiden would like an axe long ago have cleft my heart in two. Who acts: hand, blue eyes, glances. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 35

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And now it is well, that I am fenced by the blue eyes of Shrí like a suit of armour, otherwise the glances of this forest maiden would like an axe long ago have cleft my heart in two.

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**Who acts:** hand, blue eyes, glances · **What happens:** be, fence, like, have · **To what, where:** I, axe, cleft, two

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, blue eyes, glances), 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:pg68641:6:35
# text = And now it is well, that I am fenced by the blue eyes of Shrí like a suit of armour, otherwise the glances of this forest maiden would like an axe long ago have cleft my heart in two.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	fenced	fence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	glances	glance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
35	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
36	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | hand |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fence** | present · passive | the blue eyes of Shrí | I |  |  | now |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 3 | **like** | would | the glances *not said here* | a axe |  |  |  | of this forest maiden; ago *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot axe=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | the glances | cleft |  | two |  | like a suit of armour; my heart *obj* | tree rules |

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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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