Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 132
At first she was a bit startled and frightened but, conquering her distrust, she gazed curiously at the sleeper.
Who acts: nun · What happens: startle, frighten, conquer, gaze, distrust · To what, where: nun, distrust
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nun), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 startled | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 startled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 startled | aux:pass |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 startled | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 frightened | cc |
| 9 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 startled | conj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 conquering | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 conquering | punct |
| 12 | conquering | conquer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 frightened | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 distrust | nmod:poss |
| 14 | distrust | distrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conquering | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gazed | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gazed | nsubj |
| 17 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 startled | conj |
| 18 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 17 gazed | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 sleeper | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sleeper | det |
| 21 | sleeper | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gazed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | past · passive | nun | a bit obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | conquer | gerund | nun's distrust | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distrust=Patient | |||||
| 4 | gaze | past | nun | at the sleeper; curiously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sleeper=Theme | ||||
| 5 | distrust | nun | nom distrust «cognition transitive»: poss=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: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (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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