Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 146
Deeply perplexed, she asked herself what could be the meaning of the charming words which had come to her ears.
Who acts: girl, charming words · What happens: perplex, ask, be, come · To what, where: girl, meaning, ears · Speech: someone speaks here
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, charming words), 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 | Deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 2 perplexed | advmod |
| 2 | perplexed | perplex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 asked | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 perplexed | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 asked | obj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 meaning | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 meaning | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 meaning | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 meaning | det |
| 11 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 words | det |
| 14 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 words | compound |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 meaning | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 words | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ears | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ears | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perplex | participle | girl not said here | deeply property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | girl | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | could | the meaning | of the charming words; what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | the charming words | girl's ears | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location |
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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