--- title: And instantly she started up, and assuming a terrific form, she gnas… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics description: And instantly she started up, and assuming a terrific form, she gnashed at Shrí with teeth like saws, and made horrible grimaces at her, saying: Wretch, thou shalt never quit this wood, but wander for ever with thy accursed beauty among its trees, haunted and beset by hideous illusions till thou sha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/9/79/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/9/) / 79 # The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 79 And instantly she started up, and assuming a terrific form, she gnashed at Shrí with teeth like saws, and made horrible grimaces at her, saying: Wretch, thou shalt never quit this wood, but wander for ever with thy accursed beauty among its trees, haunted and beset by hideous illusions till thou shalt long for death. **Who acts:** Ulupí, thou · **What happens:** start up, assume, gnash, make, say, not quit · **To what, where:** terrific form, Shrí, horrible grimaces, Wretch, wood, trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulupí, thou), 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:pg68641:9:79 # text = And instantly she started up, and assuming a terrific form, she gnashed at Shrí with teeth like saws, and made horrible grimaces at her, saying: Wretch, thou shalt never quit this wood, but wander for ever with thy accursed beauty among its trees, haunted and beset by hideous illusions till thou shalt long for death. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 assuming assume VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 terrific terrific ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gnashed gnash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Shrí Shrí PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 saws saw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 grimaces grimace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Wretch Wretch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 34 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 quit quit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 37 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 wander wander VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 41 obl _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 accursed accurs VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 amod _ _ 47 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 48 among among ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 haunted haunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 acl _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 beset beset VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 55 by by ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 hideous hideous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 illusions illusion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 obl _ _ 58 till till SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 59 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 63 nsubj _ _ 60 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 61 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 63 advmod _ _ 62 for for ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 63 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start up** | past | Ulupí | | | | | instantly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **assume** | gerund | Ulupí *not said here* | a terrific form | | | | | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | | 3 | **gnash** | past | Ulupí | | | Shrí | | with teeth like saws | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | past | Ulupí *not said here* | horrible grimaces | | | | at Ulupí | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grimace=Product | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Ulupí *not said here* | Wretch | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wretch=Topic | | 6 | **not** **quit** | shall | thou | this wood | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Source | | 7 | **wander** | present | | | | beauty's trees | | with thy accursed beauty | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Trajectory | | 8 | **accurs** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **haunt** | participle | | beauty's trees *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **beset** | present | | | | | | by hideous illusions; death thou *advcl* | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/9/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/9/80/) - ↑ back to [A Sleep and a Dream., part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/9/)