Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 91
Alas the house where he expected to find his beautiful little wife had been burned to the ground, as if blasted by a dragon’s fiery breath.
Who acts: task · What happens: expect, find, burn, blast · To what, where: beautiful little wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task), 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 | Alas | alas | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expected | obl |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 expected | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 expected | nsubj |
| 6 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 expected | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 burned | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 burned | aux:pass |
| 15 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 find | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 blasted | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 blasted | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 blasted | mark |
| 22 | blasted | blast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 burned | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 breath | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dragon | det |
| 25 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 breath | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 dragon | case |
| 27 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 breath | amod |
| 28 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blasted | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | task | alas the house | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | task not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | burn | past · perfect · passive | task's beautiful little wife | to the ground | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blast a condition, not said to happen | participle | by a dragon's fiery breath | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by breath=Location |
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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