Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 149
Very much puzzled, she sent her servant to inquire who could be the author of the verses she had just heard.
Who acts: girl · What happens: puzzle, send, inquire, be, hear · To what, where: servant, author, verses · 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), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 puzzled | advmod |
| 3 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sent | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 puzzled | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 servant | nmod:poss |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 inquire | mark |
| 10 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 author | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 author | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 author | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 author | det |
| 15 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inquire | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 verses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 verses | det |
| 18 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 author | nmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 heard | advmod |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 verses | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puzzle | participle | girl not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | send | past | girl | girl's servant | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | could | the author | of the verses; who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | girl | the verses not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer verse=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/6/149/