Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 166
“Has the affair been settled?” she asked him, without manifesting the least emotion.
Who acts: girl · What happens: settle, ask, manifest · To what, where: affair, sight, least emotion · 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 (girl), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 settled | punct |
| 2 | Has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 settled | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 affair | det |
| 4 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 settled | aux:pass |
| 6 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asked | advcl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 settled | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 settled | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 manifesting | punct |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 manifesting | mark |
| 14 | manifesting | manifest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 emotion | det |
| 16 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 emotion | amod |
| 17 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 manifesting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the affair | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | girl | sight | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | manifest | gerund | girl not said here | the least emotion | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=Theme |
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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