Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 167
She trembled, shivered, broke out into a cold perspiration and suffered terribly.
Who acts: woman · What happens: tremble, shiver, break out, suffer · To what, where: cold perspiration
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), 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 trembled | nsubj |
| 2 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shivered | punct |
| 4 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trembled | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shivered | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 broke | compound:prt |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 perspiration | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 perspiration | det |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 perspiration | amod |
| 11 | perspiration | perspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 suffered | cc |
| 13 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trembled | conj |
| 14 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 13 suffered | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | woman | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shiver | past | woman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | break out | past | woman not said here | into a cold perspiration result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into perspiration=Result | ||||
| 4 | suffer | past | woman not said here | terribly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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