Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 119
The girl, walking up and down the garden, now and then cast furtive glances at the youth who was watching her.
Who acts: girl, youth · What happens: walk up, cast, watch · To what, where: furtive glances, youth, girl
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, youth), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cast | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walking | punct |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 girl | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 walking | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 garden | cc |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cast | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 cast | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cast | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 cast | advmod |
| 14 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | furtive | furtive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 glances | amod |
| 16 | glances | glance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cast | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 youth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 youth | det |
| 19 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cast | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 watching | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 watching | aux |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 youth | acl:relcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 watching | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk up | gerund | the girl not said here | the garden conj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cast | infinitive | the girl | furtive glances | the youth | now; then | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at youth=Destination | ||
| 3 | watch | past · progressive | the youth | girl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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