Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 96
In fact, the old gentleman did present a very disagreeable appearance to the eye.
Who acts: old gentleman · What happens: present · To what, where: disagreeable appearance, eye, fact
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 (old gentleman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gentleman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gentleman | amod |
| 6 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 present | aux |
| 8 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 appearance | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 disagreeable | advmod |
| 11 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appearance | amod |
| 12 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 eye | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eye | det |
| 15 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past · do-support | the old gentleman | a disagreeable appearance | the eye | fact | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme to eye=Recipient |
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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