Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 95
The old lady at once set about doing what Su-Rung had requested.
What happens: set, do, request · To what, where: old lady, Su
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 set | mark |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 set | advmod |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lady | acl |
| 7 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 doing | mark |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 set | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 doing | obj |
| 10 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 requested | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rung | punct |
| 12 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Su | conj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 requested | aux |
| 14 | requested | request | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | the old lady not said here | once property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | request | past · perfect · passive | Su and Rung | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient |
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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