Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 182
Very happy because of her sacrifice, she hastened to her father and handed him the paper which he had signed.
Who acts: girl, father · What happens: hasten, hand, sign, sacrifice · To what, where: paper, father
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, father), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 happy | advmod |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 6 sacrifice | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 because | fixed |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sacrifice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happy | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hastened | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hastened | nsubj |
| 9 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happy | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hastened | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 handed | cc |
| 14 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hastened | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 handed | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 paper | det |
| 17 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 handed | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 signed | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 signed | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 signed | aux |
| 21 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 paper | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | girl | to girl's father result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to father=Result | ||||
| 2 | hand | past | girl not said here | the paper | father | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination paper=Theme | |||
| 3 | sign | past · perfect | father | the paper | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Destination | ||||
| 5 | sacrifice | girl | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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