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Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 156

She immediately retraced her steps, hastening to the lake where she noticed the sandals beside the water and the body of the old lady floating on the surface.

Who acts: woman, old lady · What happens: retrace, hasten, notice, float, step · To what, where: steps, lake, sandals, water, surface

This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, old lady), 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

nsubjadvmodnmod:possobjpunctadvclcasedetobladvmodnsubjacl:relcldetobjcasedetnmodccdetconjcasedetamodnmodaclcasedetoblpunctrootShePRONimmediatelyADVretracedVERBherPRONstepsNOUN,PUNCThasteningVERBtoADPtheDETlakeNOUNwhereADVshePRONnoticedVERBtheDETsandalsNOUNbesideADPtheDETwaterNOUNandCCONJtheDETbodyNOUNofADPtheDEToldADJladyNOUNfloatingVERBonADPtheDETsurfaceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 retracednsubj
2immediatelyimmediatelyADV_3 retracedadvmod
3retracedretraceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 stepsnmod:poss
5stepsstepNOUNNumber=Plur3 retracedobj
6,,PUNCT_7 hasteningpunct
7hasteninghastenVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 retracedadvcl
8totoADP_10 lakecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 lakedet
10lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing7 hasteningobl
11wherewhereADVPronType=Rel13 noticedadvmod
12sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 noticednsubj
13noticednoticeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 lakeacl:relcl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 sandalsdet
15sandalssandalNOUNNumber=Plur13 noticedobj
16besidebesideADP_18 watercase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 waterdet
18waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing15 sandalsnmod
19andandCCONJ_21 bodycc
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 bodydet
21bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing18 waterconj
22ofofADP_25 ladycase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 ladydet
24oldoldADJDegree=Pos25 ladyamod
25ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing21 bodynmod
26floatingfloatVERBVerbForm=Ger25 ladyacl
27ononADP_29 surfacecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 surfacedet
29surfacesurfaceNOUNNumber=Sing26 floatingobl
30..PUNCT_3 retracedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1retracepastwomanwoman's stepsimmediately propertytree rules
2hastengerundwoman not said herethe lakevn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to lake=Destination
3noticepastwomanthe sandalsthe water and the body of the old ladyvn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sandal=Stimulus
4floatgerundthe old lady not said herethe surfacevn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory
5stepwomannom step «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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