Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 111
It was impossible to approach her as the garden was surrounded by a continuous wall.
Who acts: continuous wall · What happens: be, approach, surround · To what, where: girl, garden
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (continuous wall), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 impossible | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 impossible | cop |
| 3 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 approach | mark |
| 5 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 impossible | csubj |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 approach | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 surrounded | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 11 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 approach | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 14 | continuous | continuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wall | amod |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 surrounded | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | approach | to-infinitive | girl | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | surround | past · passive | a continuous wall | the garden | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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