Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 114
She turned a candid look toward the walker, giving the young man a subtle thrill of pleasure.
Who acts: girl · What happens: turn, give, thrill · To what, where: candid look, walker, subtle thrill, young man, pleasure
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 (girl), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 look | det |
| 4 | candid | candid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | amod |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 6 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 8 walker | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walker | det |
| 8 | walker | walker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 giving | punct |
| 10 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 turned | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thrill | det |
| 15 | subtle | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thrill | amod |
| 16 | thrill | thrill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pleasure | case |
| 18 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrill | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | girl | a candid look | the walker | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent look=Theme toward walker=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | girl not said here | a subtle thrill of pleasure | the young man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient thrill=Theme | |||
| 3 | thrill | pleasure | nom thrill «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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