Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 18
Scarcely had Su-Yeng uttered these words, when there came a loud rapping at the door.
Who acts: Scarcely, Su · What happens: have, utter, come, rap · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, Su), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 uttered | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yeng | punct |
| 5 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Su | conj |
| 6 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 uttered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 came | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 came | expl |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 loud | det |
| 14 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 came | xcomp |
| 15 | rapping | rap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 loud | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rapping | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | Su and Yeng | this words | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Scarcely not said here | there | loud property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | rap | gerund | Scarcely not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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