Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 116
Her hair, which fell down over her shoulders, was as fine and golden as the clouds which disappear behind the mountain peaks in the rays of the setting sun. Add to these attractions a very small hand and a gait as graceful as the flight of a bird.
Who acts: hair, clouds · What happens: fall down, be, disappear, peak, add, ray · To what, where: shoulders, mountain, rays, setting sun.
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 (hair, clouds), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hair | acl:relcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 shoulders | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hair | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fine | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 fine | advmod |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 golden | cc |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fine | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 clouds | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 clouds | det |
| 18 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 peaks | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 disappear | nsubj |
| 20 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 mountain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 disappear | obl |
| 24 | peaks | peak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fine | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 rays | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rays | det |
| 27 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 peaks | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sun. | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sun. | det |
| 30 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sun. | compound |
| 31 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rays | nmod |
| 32 | Add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 peaks | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 attractions | case |
| 34 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 35 attractions | det |
| 35 | attractions | attraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Add | obl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 hand | det |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 small | advmod |
| 38 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 hand | amod |
| 39 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 attractions | appos |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 gait | cc |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 gait | det |
| 42 | gait | gait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hand | conj |
| 43 | as | as | ADV | _ | 44 graceful | advmod |
| 44 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 gait | amod |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 flight | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 flight | det |
| 47 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 graceful | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 bird | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 bird | det |
| 50 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 flight | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | girl's hair | girl's shoulders | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | girl's hair | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | girl's hair not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | disappear | present | the clouds | the mountain | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | peak | present | the rays of the setting sun. | as the clouds | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | add speech: assert | infinitive | to this attractions | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to attraction=Co-Patient | |||||
| 7 | ray | the setting sun. | nom ray «phenomenon 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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