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title: And she looked at him with a jeering laugh: and instantly she sat do… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And she looked at him with a jeering laugh: and instantly she sat down, and wound herself up in her long hair, and began to weep. Who acts: elephant. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 63

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And she looked at him with a jeering laugh: and instantly she sat down, and wound herself up in her long hair, and began to weep.

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**Who acts:** elephant · **What happens:** look, sit down, wound up, begin, weep · **To what, where:** elephant, long hair

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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 (elephant), 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:pg68641:6:63
# text = And she looked at him with a jeering laugh: and instantly she sat down, and wound herself up in her long hair, and began to weep.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	jeering	jeering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wound	wound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | elephant |  |  |  |  | at Land; with a jeering laugh | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | elephant |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wound up** | infinitive | elephant *not said here* | elephant |  | elephant's long hair |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 4 | **begin** | past | elephant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **weep** | to-infinitive | elephant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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