Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 10
She awoke, startled by the vividness of this vision, and immediately told her husband about it.
Who acts: wife · What happens: awake, startle, tell · To what, where: husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 awoke | nsubj |
| 2 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 startled | punct |
| 4 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 awoke | parataxis |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 vividness | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vividness | det |
| 7 | vividness | vividness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 startled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 vision | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 vision | det |
| 10 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vividness | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 13 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 14 told | advmod |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 awoke | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | iobj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | wife | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | startle | participle | by the vividness of this vision | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | wife not said here | wife's husband | about vision; immediately property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient about it=Topic |
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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